Park Hill, Hillhead
House Platform(S) (Period Unknown), Ring Ditch (Prehistoric), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Park Hill, Hillhead
Classification House Platform(S) (Period Unknown), Ring Ditch (Prehistoric), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Parks
Canmore ID 78840
Site Number NY09NE 49
NGR NY 0649 9778
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/78840
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkpatrick-juxta
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY09NE 49 0649 9778
Scheduled as 'Parks, scooped settlement and house platforms 770m NNW of...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 15 March 2010.
Field Visit (23 September 1991)
NY 0649 9779 NY09NE 49
The remains of this scooped settlement lie on the gently-sloping N flank of Park Hill. Oval on plan, the enclosure measures about 57m from NNE to SSW by up to 29.5m transversely within a bank which measures up to 5m in thickness and 0.3m in height and forms a grass-covered mound on the N and E, but is markedly stonier on the S and has been removed on the SW. There is an entrance (2.3m wide) on the SE, and a gap in the bank on the NE may mark the position of another.
Within the interior, which has been scooped to a depth of up to 1m into the slope on the S, there are a number of artificial features, the best-defined being an oval scooped platform in the N half. This measures about 9.5m from NW to SE by 7m transversely, with a rear scarp up to 0.4m high and a front apron forming a long but shallow arc. Immediately adjacent to the platform on the E, there is either a small scooped house-platform (measuring about 6m by 4m) or some form of baffled entrance. In the S half of the interior a second platform is marked by an L-shaped apron and a low rear scarp. Immediately to the S of this, there is a short arc of ring-ditch which is certainly earlier in date than the adjacent platform.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 23 September 1991.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
