Glencarse
Building (Period Unknown), Pit Alignment (Prehistoric), Ring Ditch (Prehistoric)
Site Name Glencarse
Classification Building (Period Unknown), Pit Alignment (Prehistoric), Ring Ditch (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 28216
Site Number NO12SE 29
NGR NO 197 220
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28216
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kinfauns
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Aerial Photographic Transcription (31 December 1988)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (7 January 1993)
NO12SE 29 197 220.
Air photography has revealed the cropmarks of a scatter of features along a low ridge to the N of Newtown of Glencarse. Adjacent to the public road there are traces of a pit-alignment, 100m to the NE a building is visible, and a further 80m NE a ring-ditch. This last feature coincides with a slight surface swelling, measuring 15m in diameter, and appears to contain a central pit; it may be a barrow.
The rectangular building measures about 12m in length and there appears to be an entrance flanked by pits in the rounded SW end. Only a short stretch of the pit-alignment can be defined, but the row of pits appears to turn eastwards at right-angles, and there are also traces of another line of pits cutting back across the axis of the ridge. Together they suggest a rectilinear enclosure measuring at least 45m by 30m.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS) 7 January 1993.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (6 October 2017)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 6 October 2017.
