Burnhead Moor
Enclosure(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Burnhead Moor
Classification Enclosure(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 41340
Site Number NS27SE 18
NGR NS 2999 7250
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/41340
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Kilmacolm
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Inverclyde
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS27SE 18 2999 7250 & 3002 7249.
(A: NS 2999 7250; B: NS 3002 7249) Enclosures (NR)
OS 25" map (1967)
A: (Noted as a house by Newall in 1964). The remains of a D-shaped enclosure, 20.0m NW-SE by 12.0m transversely, formed by a turf bank with some stone showing. The bank, of which some 15.0m of the straight NE side has been obliterated, has a maximum width of 4.0m and a maximum height of 0.4m. The entrance, 2.0m wide, is in the middle of the SW side.
B: Twenty-five metres E of A, there are the slight remains of a second enclosure, formed by a turf bank which continues as a scarp into the S face of a small knoll. The bank measures 3.0m wide and 0.3m high. The SE half of this enclosure is obliterated but it has a conjectural diameter of about 10.0m.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 13 November 1964
By analogy with sites at Martin Glen (NS26NW 9) and Rottenburn, (NS26NE 14), hut circle 'A' is probably of Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age date. (For 'B' NS37SW 4).
F Newall 1976
Field Visit (November 2012)
As part of a cultural heritage statement CFA Archaeology Ltd undertook field survey to assess the present baseline condition of the known archaeology and heritage features identified through a desk-based assessment as well as to identify any further features of historic environment interest not detected from the deskbased assessment; as well as areas with the potential to contain currently unrecorded buried archaeological remains.
Information from Helena Gray (CFA Archaeology Ltd) July 2014. OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-263967, nos 4a and 4b
