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Glen Cochill

Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Cup Marked Rock (Prehistoric), Field Boundary(S) (Period Unknown), Hut Circle (Prehistoric), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Glen Cochill

Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Cup Marked Rock (Prehistoric), Field Boundary(S) (Period Unknown), Hut Circle (Prehistoric), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 87709

Site Number NN93NW 15

NGR NN 9073 3989

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

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Field Visit (9 December 1993)

NN93NW 15.00 centred on 906 399

NN93NW 15.01 NN 9079 3984 Glen Cochill Cup-marked rock (Braan93 419).

On an undulating heather-covered ridge to the W of the present A826 road, and about 1.8km NW of Kinloch House, there is a hut-circle within an area of small cairns and banks. At the NW edge of this area there are four shieling-huts, while on a knoll to the SE of the hut-circle, amongst the small cairns, there is a cup-marked (NN93NW 15.01.)

The hut-circle (Braan93 420) is situated on a terrace on the E side of the ridge at NN 9069 3992. It measures 10.5m in diameter within a bank 1.1m thick and up to 0.4m high, faced inside and out with edge-set stones, and which is best-preserved in the arc from N to SE. The entrance is on the SSE, where the bank thickens to 2m.

The small cairns measure up to 4m in diameter and 0.4m in height. They are concentrated in a band about 240m long and 60m broad extending NW and SE from the hut-circle. At least twenty were recorded in this area, along with occasional fragments of bank, and another two cairns were noted to the NE, on the E side of the road at NN 908 400.

Towards the NW end of the spread of small cairns there are four stone-built huts (Braan93 421-4), which measure between 2.3m and 4.9m in length and between 1.9m and 2.5m in breadth within walls up to 1.1m in thickness which stand up to 0.6m high. Fragments of bank to the E of the most northerly hut (Braan93 424; NN 9066 4005) may be the remains of an attached enclosure.

(Braan93 419-24)

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 9 December 1993

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