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Kinloch
Souterrain (Prehistoric)
Site Name Kinloch
Classification Souterrain (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 30149
Site Number NO21SE 12
NGR NO 27841 11517
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30149
- Council Fife
- Parish Collessie
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO21SE 12 27841 11517
(Area : NO 279 115) The earth-house was discovered about 1933 during ploughing. The laird refused permission for the site to be excavated and it was covered over. The exact spot cannot be identified (information from Mr H Munro, tenant, Kinloch Farm). A sandstone disc from the earth-house in the Bell Pettigrew Museum, St Andrews.
Visited by OS (D S) 29 October 1956.
The situation remains the same as described above. The field has been ploughed recently but there is no trace of the earth-house.
Visited by OS (W D J) 21 March 1967.
The site of the earth-house is on the top of a small hillock in cultivated ground, and fairly close to the N shore of Rossie Loch which was drained by 1726. The earth-house was discovered and partly excavated in 1933 by Mr Turner (D Turner, Woodside, Ladybank). Finds included a yellow bead, several animal teeth, and pieces of charcoal.
Information contained in letter and Mss note from D F O Russell 2 February 1968.
This souterrain was situated on the knoll centred NO 2783 1151.
Information contained in letter from C J Tabraham, 6 August 1971.
There is no trace of this souterrain in an arable field.
Visited by OS (B S) 20 September 1978.
This souterrain is revealed by cropmarks recorded by aerial photography 540m NW of Innerleith farmsteading. It is C-shaped and measures about 12m across, and narrows to where it hooks round to a probable entrance at the N end. A series of cropmarks have been recorded across the same field including those of an unenclosed settlement 75m to the W (NO21SE 33) and cultivation remains (NO21SE 32).
Information from RCAHMS (KB) 9 February 2000
Aerial Photographic Transcription (31 July 1990 - 19 November 1990)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Archaeological Evaluation (9 January 2011 - 22 February 2011)
A programme of archaeological evaluation works was carried out for Dalgleish Associates on behalf of Laird Aggregates Ltd to inform the development a proposal for mineral extraction on land to the south of Kinloch House, Collessie, Fife. The evaluation confirmed the presence of significant archaeological sites first identified from aerial photography within the proposed extraction area. The archaeological sites included an unenclosed settlement that may stretch from the Iron Age to the Pictish period on a knoll that would have been a peninsula into the drained Rossie Loch. This settlement includes a scheduled souterrain, evidence for post build structures and sunken structures with paved floors. Further north was a severely truncated pit alignment of uncertain, but probably prehistoric, origin. A number of dispersed pits or post-holes were also located, one of which contained numerous sherds of a Neolithic Grooved Ware pottery vessel. The findings of the evaluation have been used to inform a series of recommendations regarding the treatment of these sites within the design process for the proposed extraction.
Archive: RCAHMS. Report: Fife Council Archaeology Service
Funder: Laird Aggregates Ltd
Rathmell Archaeology Ltd, 2011
Information also reported in Oasis (rathmell1-88669) 26 March 2013
