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Sheriffton
Field Boundary(S) (19th Century), Field Boundary (Period Unknown), Pit(S) (Period Unknown), Pit Alignment (Prehistoric), Souterrain (Prehistoric), Unenclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Sheriffton
Classification Field Boundary(S) (19th Century), Field Boundary (Period Unknown), Pit(S) (Period Unknown), Pit Alignment (Prehistoric), Souterrain (Prehistoric), Unenclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Sherifftown
Canmore ID 28174
Site Number NO12NW 42
NGR NO 104 277
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28174
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Scone
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO12NW 42 104 277
Among the linear features recorded as cropmarks there is a field boundary, which is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1865-1891, sheet lxxxvi).
Information from RCAHMS (OGS), 29 April 2008.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (5 April 1990)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (14 December 1992)
Cropmarks on aerial photographs have revealed a complex settlement about 300m W of Sheriffton farmsteading. On the NE there is what was classified in the survey of South-east Perth as an 'enclosed crescent' while some 80m to the SW there is an 'interrupted ring-ditch'. A mass of other smaller features can be detected including at least two ditches broken by numerous causeways into elongated pits. The enclosed crescent (NO 1043 2777) comprises a broad penannular cropmark measuring about 14m in overall diameter with traces of a concentric halo. It almost certainly represents a palisaded enclosure some 21m in diameter with a central round house. A smaller crescentic feature immediately to the E may mark the site of a second, unenclosed, round house. The interrupted ring-ditch (NO 1037 2770) comprises a narrow ditch with a diameter of about 13m and what is probably a souterrain emerging from a broad gap on the S. Another curving cropmark lies about 14m to the SW, together with a series of pits and small maculae. Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 14 December 1992.
