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Craigcaffie
Palisaded Settlement (Iron Age), Roundhouse (Iron Age)
Site Name Craigcaffie
Classification Palisaded Settlement (Iron Age), Roundhouse (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 80258
Site Number NX06SE 89
NGR NX 08639 63903
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/80258
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX06SE 89 08639 63903
This palisaded enclosure and roundhouse have been recorded as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1992, 1995, 2008). It is curvilinear in plan and defined by a ditch about 0.8m wide. The enclosed area is 43m in diameter, but the E side is missing, and appears to have been incorporated into a modern field boundary. There may have been an entrance at the W where there are two breaks in the palisade trench, and a possible roundhouse13m in diameter inside the enclosure.
Information from RCAHMS (KHJM) 18 Nov 2011
Aerial Photographic Transcription (18 November 2011)
Note (8 June 2022)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from PALISADED SETTLEMENT (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), ROUNDHOUSE (PREHISTORIC)(POSSIBLE).
