Wheatlands
Roundhouse(S) (Prehistoric), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Wheatlands
Classification Roundhouse(S) (Prehistoric), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) House Farm Bonnybridge
Canmore ID 47007
Site Number NS88SW 12
NGR NS 8163 8075
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47007
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Denny
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (11 September 1952)
NS88SW 816 807 (unnoted)
Settlement, Wheatlands (Site).
National Survey air-photographs (CPE/SCOT/UK 256, 5330-1) reveal the buried remains of a settlement, in the form of crop-markings, in a cultivated field 150 yds. SSW. of Wheatlands Home Farm. The site is at a height of about 220 ft. O.D., on a broad ridge that forms part of the NW. slopes of the valley of the Bonny Water. The settlement was bounded by a bank and ditch which enclosed an oval area measuring about 200 ft. in length from NE. to SW. by about 150 ft. transversely. The entrance appears to have been in the NE. arc.
Within the interior there are indications of five or six round structures, presumably huts, each measuring between 20 ft. and 30 ft. in diameter.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 11 September 1952.
Reference (1957)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1951-5)’ (RCAHMS 1957, xiv-xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG), 24 October 2012.
Field Visit (21 January 1974)
NS88SW 12 8163 8075.
(NS 8163 8075) Earthwork (NR) (site of)
OS 25" map (1967)
There is no trace of this settlement.
Visited by OS (DWR) 21 January 1974
Field Visit (July 1977)
Wheatlands NS 816 807 NS88SW 12
Oval enclosure possibly with circular huts.
RCAHMS 1978, visited July 1977
(RCAHMS 1963, p.87, No. 101)
