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Glenquey Hill
Enclosure(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Hut (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Quarry (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Sheepfold (Post Medieval), Track(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Glenquey Hill
Classification Enclosure(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Hut (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Lazy Beds (Post Medieval), Quarry (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Sheepfold (Post Medieval), Track(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) River Devon
Canmore ID 78264
Site Number NN90SE 19
NGR NN 9842 0451
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/78264
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Glendevon
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (1 June 1998)
NN90SE 19 9842 0451
There are twelve turf-banked enclosures strung out along a narrow grass- and heather-grown terrace between the NE foot of Glenquey Hill and the haughland to the S of the River Devon. Most of the enclosures are subrectangular on plan and free-standing, though a few are connected together by lengths of field-bank. The enclosures measure internally between 6m by 4m across and up to 30m square. One enclosure forms a rough figure of eight on plan. Another (NN 9831 0458) is oval on plan and its interior is taken up by three lazy-beds. There is no sign of any cultivation in the interiors of the other eleven enclosures and some at least may have been for stock.
A patch of rig on a terrace on the ESE bank of the March Burn comprises furrows set about 5m apart (NN 9825 0461). A small quarry has been dug into the knoll to the E of the rig, probably for gravel (NN 98931 0460), and there is a small hut or pen butted onto one of the field-banks in amongst the enclosures (NN 9841 0453).
Two trackways run across the terrace, leading along Glen Devon. One rig-zags up the hill from Burnfoot and drops down to the bridge over the river (NN 9880 0429 - 9837 0469) beside The Lodge (of Glendevon House). The second forks from this trackway at the ESE end of the terrace (NN 9862 0434) and runs along the back of the terrace towards the March Burn (NN 9814 0456).
On the hillside above the terrace a field-bank describes a large C-shaped enclosure (NN 9824 0448), predominately taking in rough ground, but also including a few small patches of ephemeral rig. What is probably a circular sheepfold lies within this enclosure, but its drystone wall has been reduced to little more than a scatter of stones (NN 9822 0447).
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 1 June 1998
