Townhead | Canmore

Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Townhead

Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 47643

Site Number NS94SE 14

NGR NS 9862 4191

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47643

Digital Images

DP 104019

General oblique aerial view of grassmarks of the Craigie Burn settlement, taken from the E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

SC 2433933

Townhead, NS94SE 14, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

DP 104020

Oblique aerial view of grassmarks of the Craigie Burn settlement, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

DP 104022

Oblique aerial view of grassmarks of the Craigie Burn settlement, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

DP 104025

Oblique aerial view of grassmarks of the Craigie Burn settlement, taken from the NNE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

SC 1728692

Craigie Burn, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on the cropmarks of a henge monument and field boundaries.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

25/7/1995

SC 1728716

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1992

DP 160719

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the settlements and field boundaries at Cragie Burn, looking W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

6/8/2013

DP 104023

Oblique aerial view of grassmarks of the Craigie Burn settlement, taken from the SE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

SC 1728697

Craigie Burn, oblique aerial view, taken from the ENE, centred on the cropmarks of a settlement and field boundaries. A henge is visible in the bottom left-hand corner of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

25/7/1995

DP 104024

Oblique aerial view of grassmarks of the Craigie Burn settlement, taken from the ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

SC 1728695

Craigie Burn, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSW, centred on the cropmarks of field boundaries and a settlement.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

25/7/1995

SC 2433934

Townhead, NS94SE 14, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

DP 160718

General oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the settlements and field boundaries at Cragie Burn, looking N.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

6/8/2013

SC 1728694

Craigie Burn, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSW, centred on the cropmarks of field boundaries. A possible henge monument is visible in the centre right of the photograph, and a settlement in the centre left.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

25/7/1995

SC 2433932

Townhead, NS94SE 14, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

DP 160721

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the settlements and field boundaries at Cragie Burn, looking W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

6/8/2013

SC 1728674

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1993

SC 1728693

Craigie Burn, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, centred on the cropmarks of a settlement and field boundaries. A possible henge monument is visible in the top right-hand corner of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

25/7/1995

DP 104021

Oblique aerial view of grassmarks of the Craigie Burn settlement, taken from the W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

DP 160720

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the settlements and field boundaries at Cragie Burn, looking W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

6/8/2013

SC 1728673

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1993

SC 1728699

Craigie Burn, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on the cropmarks of a possible henge monument and field boundaries. A settlement is visible in the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

25/7/1995

SC 2433935

Townhead, NS94SE 14, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

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Administrative Areas

Council South Lanarkshire
Parish Libberton
Former Region Strathclyde
Former District Clydesdale
Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS94SE 14 9862 4191.

NS 986 419. Enclosure, Townhead (Site): A roughly circular enclosure, measuring approximately 50m in diameter within a ditch about 2m wide, is revealed by a crop-mark on air photographs in an arable field 400m SSW of Townhead farmhouse and 170m W of earthwork NS94SE 19. No traces are visible on the ground.

RCAHMS 1978, visited 1969

As stated, there is nothing visible on the ground. The site lies on a NW-facing slope and is non-defensive. Sited to NS 9862 4191 from air photograph and ground observation.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 17 January 1968

Following recent aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1995) this site has been re-interpreted as a settlement.

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 16 June 1999

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