Alternative Names Findal Cottages
Site type CROPMARK, PIT ALIGNMENT, PIT DEFINED CURSUS
Canmore ID 25324
Site Number NN81NE 44
NGR NN 86550 19030
Council PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish MUTHILL
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District PERTH AND KINROSS
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NN81NE 44 8653 1897 to 8656 1910.

Cropmarks have revealed a pit-enclosure and pit-alignments lying approximately 250m to the SW of Findal Cottages. The pit-enclosure consists of two lines of pits (about 30-35m apart) running NNE - SSW for a distance of approximately 110m. The pits converge slightly at the SSW end and unite in a squared terminal. The NNE end also terminates in a squared traverse but has two 'horns' protruding out, the W 'horn' continuing the line of pits for a further 20m to the NNE and the E 'horn' veering off for 25m to the NE. There are pit-alignments nearby and a pit-circle (NN81NE 45).
Information from RCAHMS (RHM) 12 April 1994.

Cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1986; CUCAP no date) have revealed a pit-defined cursus lying across the crest of a low, flat-topped ridge to the ENE of Bennybeg Craig. The cursus (EARNAP 77) comprises a subrectangular enclosure, measuring about 110m from NNE to SSW by about 35m across. Two 'horns' extend from the northern corners, each measuring about 22m in length and set at a slight angle to the rest of the monument. Set centrally outside the SSW end of the cursus there is a large pit. To the E of the cursus there is an alignment of at least six pits aligned from NW to SE. To the NW of the cursus there is an oval macula of unknown function (EARNAP 78). A pit-circle lying along the ridge to the E of the cursus is described elsewhere (NN 81NE 45).
(EARNAP 77, 78)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 25 November 1997

Scheduled as Findal Cottages, pit-enclosure and pit-circle 250m SW of.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 3 July 2000.

Barclay and Maxwell, G J and G S (1998) The Cleaven Dyke and Littleour: monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Monograph no 13 Edinburgh
Page(s): 78, 101 Held at RCAHMS E.7.1.BAR

Brophy, K (1999b) 'The cursus monuments of Scotland', in Barclay, A and Harding, J Pathways and ceremonies: the cursus monument of Britain and Ireland, Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 4 Oxford
Page(s): 126, 128 Held at RCAHMS E.7.BAR

Darvill, T (1996) Prehistoric Britain from the air: a study of space, time and society, Cambridge
Page(s): 183 Fig 101 Held at RCAHMS E.2.1.DAR