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West Huntingtower

Palisaded Enclosure (Period Unassigned)

Site Name West Huntingtower

Classification Palisaded Enclosure (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Huntingtower Cropmark Complex

Canmore ID 26802

Site Number NO02NE 87

NGR NO 07702 25190

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Tibbermore
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO02NE 87 07702 25190

For other elements of the Mains of Huntingtower cropmark complex, see NO02NE 39, NO02NE 86, NO02NE 100, NO02NE 151, NO02SE 27, NO02SE 49, NO02SE 66 and NO02SE 67.

A small circular enclosure straddling a field boundary. Possible entrance on the east. Narrow ditch. (Site 7 in Barclay 1983).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Scheduled as [part of] 'Mains of Huntingtower, henges, enclosures, pits and road WSW of... the remains of a neolithic henge, two prehistoric enclosures, five prehistoric roundhouses, dispersed groups of pits and a broadly-parallel alignment of pits representing a Roman road [surviving] as a complex group of buried archaeological features... on a river terrace in cultivated land to the north-west of Perth, 1km south of the River Almond and at 35m above sea level.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 25 November 2008.

Activities

Watching Brief (6 July 2010)

NO 0810 2510 A watching brief and metal detector survey

were undertaken on 6 July 2010 during groundbreaking

works associated with the installation of a septic tank and

related features (including tailrace and soakaway). Part

of these works crossed the eastern end of a scheduled

monument (AMH 3630 – Mains of Huntingtower, henge,

enclosure pits and road WSW of), but no features or deposits

of archaeological significance were recorded.

Archive: RCAHMS. Report: Historic Scotland and Perth and Kinross

Heritage Trust

Funder: Mr J Ritchie

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