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Latitude: 56.4661 / 56°27'57"N
Longitude: -3.093 / 3°5'34"W
OS Eastings: 332753
OS Northings: 730971
OS Grid: NO327309
Mapcode National: GBR VG.LKH8
Mapcode Global: WH6Q4.GQCX
Entry Name: Huntly Farm, enclosures 300m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 17 December 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6559
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: Longforgan
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Carse of Gowrie
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises the remains of a large enclosed settlement and adjacent smaller enclosure of prehistoric date, both visible on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland between around 20-30m OD. It comprises a roughly oval enclosure some 70m NW-SE by about 90m NE-SW, with a ditch some 2m wide. Darker patches inside the enclosure may indicate the remains of former domestic structures. Some 5m to the NE is a second enclosure some 20m in diameter, either representing the remains of a small enclosed settlement or of a former timber roundhouses.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the enclosures and an area around them in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It is circular with a diameter of 140m as marked in red on the accompanying map and excludes the above-ground structure of the electricity tower which stands within this area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to our understanding of prehistoric settlement and economy. The functional and chronological relationships between the two enclosures will be of particular importance.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO 33 SW 36 and 37.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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