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Piltanton Burn

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Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric), Track (Post Medieval)(Possible), Unenclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)

Site Name Piltanton Burn

Classification Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric), Track (Post Medieval)(Possible), Unenclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Mark Cottage, Fox Plantation

Canmore ID 61222

Site Number NX15NW 14

NGR NX 11597 56781

NGR Description Centre

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61222

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Oblique aerial view.
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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Inch
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX15NW 14 11631 56781

Air photography has revealed at least four ring-ditches and a circular cropmark on the N side of the Piltanton Burn 250m E of the E end of Fox Plantation. The largest of the ring-ditches measures 15m in diameter within a narrow ditch, and it has an entrance on the W. The three other ring-ditches and the circular cropmark each measure about 9m in diameter.

RCAHMS 1987

Aerial photography has also revealed a pair of clearly defined straight linear cropmarks, each 2m wide, running E-W through, though not respecting, the concentration of ring-ditches. RCAHMS rectifications show that they are 8m apart and run for a distance of 220m. There is no evidence for any field boundaries here on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Wigtownshire 1849, sheet xvi).

Transcription prepared by RCAHMS (MMB) 20 October 1993

Transcription file MS 840/443, 1993

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 30 June 1999

(Scheduled as unenclosed settlement at site-name Mark Cottage).

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 5 October 1999.

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Aerial Photographic Transcription (12 February 1993 - 20 October 1993)

Aerial Photographic Transcriptions

An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.

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Aerial Photographic Transcription (24 November 2011)

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Note (5 December 2022)

HES Rhins and New Luce Project

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from LINEAR FEATURE(S) (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), RING DITCH(S) (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).

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