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Branthat Plantation
Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Branthat Plantation
Classification Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) The Gill
Canmore ID 66578
Site Number NY16NW 3
NGR NY 12157 67787
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66578
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Cummertrees
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY16NW 3 12157 67787
Location formerly entered as NY 1215 6777.
(NY 1215 6777) Circular earthwork.
Visible on AP's 543/RAF/436, 1-12-58, F22, 0053-4.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This non-defensive earthwork is situated on level ground and in a dense plantation. It consists of double banks (0.5m average height) of earth with some stone, and medial ditch (1.2m deep); the entrance is probably in the SW side.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (EGC) 6 November 1967
A settlement, as described.
Visited by OS (JP) 22 February 1973.
Scheduled as 'Branthat Plantation, settlement 320m SE of [The] Gill... situated at 30m above sea level on low-lying land adjacent to [the] Pow Water and the Solway Firth.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 7 November 2007.
Note (1997)
NY 1215 6777 NY16NW 3
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
