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Millhaugh

Cropmark(S) (Period Unknown), Pit(S) (Period Unassigned), Ring Ditch (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Millhaugh

Classification Cropmark(S) (Period Unknown), Pit(S) (Period Unassigned), Ring Ditch (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 26708

Site Number NO01SW 36

NGR NO 00615 14044

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Dunning
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO01SW 36 00615 14044

The cropmarks of a ring-ditch and pits have been revealed by aerial photography 180m WSW of Millhaugh farmsteading (NO01SW 50.00). The possible pennanular ring-ditch has a diameter of c.5m within a ditch of 2m width, with an opening on the SE side. A scattering of large pits and indeterminate cropmarks are visible immediately to the S and E, and all appear to be overlain by rig (NO01SW 68). A circular enclosure, also visible as cropmarkings, has been recorded in the same field 90m to the SSE (NO01SW 34).

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 17 May 1999

Activities

Excavation (27 March 2017 - 4 April 2017)

Final fieldwork for the SERF project focused on a small group of cropmarks immediately to the W of Millhaugh. Following fieldwalking, test pitting and geophysical survey, which were conducted in previous years, two trenches (MH17.1 and MH17.2) were excavated, 27 March – 4 April 2017.

NO 00678 13952 (NO01SW 34) There were three concentric circular palisade enclosures, and internal stake defined palisade structures exposed in trench MH17.1. Based on comparative data from elsewhere, the features suggest a possible Iron Age date.

NO 00615 14044 (NO01SW 36) A mini-henge was revealed in the trench MH17.2, which has been provisionally attributed to the Bronze Age. Two midden pits cut the fills of the henge ditch. Thereafter, one of those pits and the henge ditch were cut by rig and furrow.

Archive: University of Glasgow (currently) and NRHE (intended)

Funder: Historic Environment Scotland and University of Glasgow

Dene Wright – University of Glasgow

(Source: DES, Volume 18)

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