Dalminnoch

NX06SE 28 08500 64070

Cropmarks have revealed about two thirds of a roughly circular enclosure 350m SSE of Dalminnoch. It measures 192m by at least 154m within a ditch 2m in breadth.

A E Truckell 1984; RCAHMS 1987

A series of cropmarks has been revealed by aerial photography scattered across two fields immediately to the S of Dalminnoch farmsteading. A large oval ditched enclosure measuring approximately 120m by 165m and centred on NT 0847 6406, is partially overlain on the W side by a railway embankment and disused road. It has an irregular boundary, that may be interrupted, and a series of indeterminate cropmarks is visible internally. The enclosure is bisected by a pair of closely spaced parallel linear cropmarks running N-S from the centre of the enclosure for a distance of at least 240m. A second pair of parallel linear cropmarks, about 8m apart, run from the N edge of the enclosure (intersecting the ditches) to the disused road to the W. A number of pits immediately to the E of the enclosure may form part of a closely spaced, irregular pit-alignment. Further cropmarks have been identified in these fields including indeterminate marks immediately to the S of the enclosure, a palisaded enclosure 100m to the SE (NX06SE 89) and another pair of parallel linear cropmarks and of possible enclosures 80m to the ENE (NX06SE 88).

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 29th November 1999