Alternative Names Duchlage; Broich Road Farm
Site type CURSUS, PIT CIRCLE
Canmore ID 25494
Site Number NN82SE 69
NGR NN 8670 2040
Council PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish CRIEFF
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District PERTH AND KINROSS
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NN82SE 69 8670 2040

Cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1982) reveal the ditches of a cursus (EARNAP 145) extending roughly from NNE to SSW across the broad terrace to the S of Crieff. The visible portion of the cursus extends over about 410m, its two ditches converging slightly from about 135m apart on the NNE to 105m on the SSW. On the SSW the ditches disappear at the top of the steep terrace edge forming the N edge of the valley floor on the N side of the River Earn. A large oval hollow, presumably natural, lies between the ditches at the SSW end, and a further ditch runs obliquely between the ditches on a NE to SW axis in the SSW half. The line of the W ditch of the cursus is broken by what may be a pit-defined circle (EARNAP 146, NN 8663 2037), measuring about 12m in diameter and probably composed of elongated pits. The line of two palisade trenches intersect the eastern ditch ( NN82SE 68), and the site of the Stayt of Crieff (NN82SE 14, 'Site of' marked on 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1866, sheet xcv)) appears to lie immediately to the E of the westernmost ditch.
(EARNAP 145, 146)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 27 March 1997

Scheduled with NN82SE 69 as Broich, cursus, ring-ditch, barrow and palisade.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 November 2000.

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): 122, 128 Held at RCAHMS E.7.BAR