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Grangemount

Souterrain(S) (Prehistoric), Unenclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)

Site Name Grangemount

Classification Souterrain(S) (Prehistoric), Unenclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 30785

Site Number NO24NW 40

NGR NO 2390 4520

NGR Description Centred NO 2390 4520

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Bendochy
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes (1992)

NO24NW 40 centred 2390 4520.

NO 2380 4520 and NO 2405 4515. Two ring ditches and associated cropmarks were identified from the air 150m S of Grangemout by pilots from Perth Aerodrome.

M D King 1992.

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Aerial Photographic Transcription (27 January 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)

The remains of this settlement complex, which has been revealed by cropmarks on air photographs, comprise at least four of the structures classified in the survey of South-east Perth as Interrupted Ring-ditches. Indeed, Grangemount has one of the largest and best-defined examples of this type of structure, with an internal diameter of about 24m; there are at least two gaps in its perimeter and a curved souterrain-like cropmark extends through one of them. The others in this group are less substantial, but each has the characteristic gaps in the perimeter and the curved souterrain-like cropmark. At least one other interrupted ring-ditch, together with two maculae, lies in the adjacent field some 150m to the ESE (NO 2402 4517).

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 7 January 1993.

Aerial Photographic Interpretation (8 June 2022)

An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 8 June 2022.

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