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Sheriffton
Field Boundary (Period Unknown), Rig And Furrow(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric), Square Barrow(S) (Iron Age)
Site Name Sheriffton
Classification Field Boundary (Period Unknown), Rig And Furrow(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric), Square Barrow(S) (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Sherifftown
Canmore ID 68811
Site Number NO12NW 53
NGR NO 1097 2790
NGR Description Centred NO 1097 2790
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68811
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Scone
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO12NW 53 centred 1097 2790.
Rig and furrow, aligned from WSW to ENE extends across the barrow cemetery, and a field boundary running from S to N lies to the W.
Information from RCAHMS (OGS), 29 April 2008.
Field Visit (10 December 1992)
Air photography has recorded the cropmarks of a cemetery comprising at least two round and up to six square barrows on near-level ground 270m NE of Sheriffton farmhouse.
The round barrows lie to the E of the square barrows and, within their ditches, measure about 6m and 8m in diameter respectively; an elongated mark extends across the ditch from the centre of the more southerly towards the NW, and a similar feature can be seen in the best-defined of the square barrows.
These latter are disposed in a conjoined row of three, a conjoined pair and a possible singleton. The row of three is aligned approximately E-W; each measures about 4m across and contains a central pit within its ditch. To the S, the conjoined pair lie on roughly the same axis and include the best-defined example in the cemetery. This measures about 7m across within its ditch, and is considerably larger than its incomplete neighbour on the E. The possible singleton to the SW is featureless.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 10 December 1992.
