Fox Plantation
Palisaded Settlement (Iron Age), Quarry(S) (Post Medieval), Roundhouse (Iron Age)
Site Name Fox Plantation
Classification Palisaded Settlement (Iron Age), Quarry(S) (Post Medieval), Roundhouse (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Mark
Canmore ID 79032
Site Number NX15NW 81.01
NGR NX 11501 57082
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/79032
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX15NW 81.01 1150 5709
See NX15NW 81.00.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (12 March 1993 - 21 October 1993)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (25 November 2011)
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (January 2022)
A settlement, comprising a palisaded enclosure containing a possible roundhouse, has been recorded as cropmarking on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1992) some 800m SE of Mark Farm and 185m ENE of the NE corner of Fox Plantation. The enclosure measures about 22m in diameter within a ditch up to 1m broad but its southern part has been removed by quarrying. What may be a second ditch, concentric to and 1.2m outside the first, can be seen on the E. Within the enclosure there is a crescent-shaped cropmark which probably represents the remains of a roundhouse measuring about 11m in diameter. A rectilinear ditched enclosure (NX15NW 81.2) partly overlaps the E side of the settlement.
Information from HES Archaeological Survey (A. McCaig), January 2022.
Note (15 June 2022)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from PALISADED ENCLOSURE (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), ROUNDHOUSE (PREHISTORIC)(POSSIBLE).
