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Blackness
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Blackness
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 49226
Site Number NT07NW 54
NGR NT 0494 7991
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49226
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Bo'ness And Carriden
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County West Lothian
NT07NW 54 0494 7991
This enclosure has presumably been identified from aerial photographs. It is located across the road from Blackness Country House on the south side of Blackness village. There is nothing visible on the ground.
Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 18th February 1996..
Cropmarks on an aerial photograph have revealed an enclsoure in the corner of a field some 50m to the SSE of Blackness House. It measures about 15m in diameter within a broad ditch and has an entrance on the E. It is plotted on a distribution map of henge monuments and penannular ring-ditches covering southern Scotland (RCAHMS 1997, 116, fig. 111).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG) 30 September 1997.
Reference (18 February 1996)
This enclosure has presumably been identified from aerial photographs. It is located across the road from Blackness Country House on the south side of Blackness village. There is nothing visible on the ground.
Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 18th February 1996..
