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Townfoot, Dolphinton
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Townfoot, Dolphinton
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 50006
Site Number NT14NW 21
NGR NT 100 454
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50006
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Dolphinton
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT14NW 21 100 454.
NT 100 454. Enclosure, Townfoot (Site): Crop-markings on air photographs (flown 1976) reveal an oval enclosure 250m SE of Townfoot. Situated in a comparatively level field a little to the NW of the top of the slope that falls to the Back Burn, the enclosure has measured about 70 m in diameter over a single ditch.
RCAHMS 1978, visited 1976
There is no ground surface evidence of this ditch cropmark in the regularly cultivated field.
Visited by OS (MJF) 29 January 1979.
