Bennybeg
Pit Circle (Prehistoric)
Site Name Bennybeg
Classification Pit Circle (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Findal Cottages
Canmore ID 25325
Site Number NN81NE 45
NGR NN 86610 19060
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25325
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Muthill
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (12 April 1994)
NN81NE 45 8662 1906.
Cropmarks have revealed a pit circle lying approximately 200m SW of Findal Cottages. It consists of 8 or 9 oblong shaped pits with a diameter of c. 10m and lies next to a 'horned' pit-enclosure (NN81NE 44).
Information from RCAHMS (RHM) 12 April 1994.
Field Visit (25 November 1997)
NN81NE 45 8662 1906.
A pit-circle (EARNAP 76), comprising eight or nine elongated pits and measuring about 12m in internal diameter, is visible as a cropmark on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1986; CUCAP no date). It is situated on the flat-topped crest of a low ridge to the E of the pit-defined cursus (NN 81NE 44). Some 70m to the ESE of the pit-circle there is a group of about twelve pits (EARNAP 75) arranged in parallel lines, and aligned from NE to SW.
(EARNAP 75, 76)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 25 November 1997
Aerial Photographic Transcription (29 March 2019)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 29 March 2019.
