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Dalnaglar
Pitcarmick Building (Early Medieval)
Site Name Dalnaglar
Classification Pitcarmick Building (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 29394
Site Number NO16SE 31
NGR NO 15084 64224
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/29394
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kirkmichael (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Measured Survey (1958)
Field Visit (20 May 1988)
Situated within a clearing in the SW corner of a conifer plantation, but recently planted with hardwoods, there are the remains of a building measuring 31.1m NW-SE by 6m in width, at the SE end, and 9.1m in width at the NW end over walls reduced to a turf-covered heather bank measuring up to 1.7m in thickness and 0.4m in height; the SE end is roughly square and contrasts with the rounded NW end. The principal entrance is situated roughly midway along the SW wall and its W side has a short out-turn; a second gap lies close to the W end and leads into an enclosure measuring 6.1m NW-SE by 4.3m internally, which is attached to the SW wall. A further break in the SW wall lies close to the SE and may be fortuitous. The SE half of the building has a shallow, hollowed-out interior and on the NE a drainage-trench flanked by an outer bank runs parallel to the length of the building. (see NO16SE 2).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 20 May 1988.
RCAHMS 1990
Measured Survey (1988)
RCAHMS surveyed the Pitcarmick-type building at Dalnaglar by self-reducing alidade and plane-table in 1988 at a scale of 1:250. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:500 (RCAHMS 1990, Fig. 253).