Canmore Site 26621: LEADKETTY - DUNNING - CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE (NEOLITHIC)(POSSIBLE), PIT CIRCLE (PREHISTORIC)(POSSIBLE), SQUARE BARROW (IRON AGE)(POSSIBLE), UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), UNIDENTIFIED POTTERY (NEOLITHIC) - (BRONZE AGE)


Description

Site NameLEADKETTY
Other Name(s)n/a
Site NumberNO01NW 21
Broad ClassMONUMENT (BY FORM), RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY, UNASSIGNED (OBJECT), DOMESTIC
Site Type(s)CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE (NEOLITHIC)(POSSIBLE), PIT CIRCLE (PREHISTORIC)(POSSIBLE), SQUARE BARROW (IRON AGE)(POSSIBLE), UNENCLOSED SETTLEMENT (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), UNIDENTIFIED POTTERY (NEOLITHIC) - (BRONZE AGE)
NGRNO 02081 16121
NGR accuracyNGR given to the nearest 1m
Local AuthorityPERTH AND KINROSS
ParishDUNNING
Record created1990-08-08
Last updated2010-12-08

Archaeology Notes

NO01NW 21 02081 16121 (Location cited as NO 021 161). Fieldwalking organised by Perth Museum and Art Gallery and Dunning Parish Historical Society on the site of this large oval cropmark enclosure resulted in the find of a small sherd of Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age pottery from within the enclosure. The sherd shows a clean break suggesting that that it was the result of recent damage by the plough. Flint and fieldwalking archive held by Perth Museum and Art Gallery (Acc. No: 1993.1094). M D King 1993. Aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1994) have recorded the cropmarks of the discontinuous ditch of a circular enclosure, situated some 250m W of Dunning Burn. At the approximate centre of which a possible square barrow has been identified at NO c. 0207 1616, and some 150m NW of another recorded square barrow (NO01NW 66). Slightly to the SE of the enclosure lies a group of pits, and to the NE a second smaller enclosure has also been identified (NO01NW 22). Further cropmarks related to settlement activity are also visible in the area. Information from RCAHMS (JH) 28 January 1998. Scheduled (with NO01NW 22, 33, 36, 39, 40, 55, 56, 66, 68, 131, 134, 141, 142 and 143) as Leadketty, enclosures, ring-ditches, square barrow and pits. Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 February 2001. (Listed as possible causewayed enclosure). This plough-levelled enclosure is almost circular on plan. It was discovered during aerial reconnaissance by CUCAP in 1971, and fieldwalking has recovered Neolithic pottery from the surface. A Oswald, C Dyer and M Barber 2001.

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