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Latitude: 56.7084 / 56°42'30"N
Longitude: -2.6115 / 2°36'41"W
OS Eastings: 362662
OS Northings: 757578
OS Grid: NO626575
Mapcode National: GBR VT.RHGL
Mapcode Global: WH8RG.VNM4
Entry Name: Kinnaird Castle, unenclosed settlement 240m W of Wood Cottage
Scheduled Date: 13 June 1996
Last Amended: 5 March 2015
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6397
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: Farnell
County: Angus
Electoral Ward: Brechin and Edzell
Traditional County: Angus
The monument is the remains of an unenclosed settlement dating to between 1800 BC and AD 400. The settlement lies buried beneath the ploughsoil and is visible as cropmarks captured on oblique aerial photographs. At least six dark disc-shaped cropmarks indicate roundhouses with sunken floors ranging in diameter from about 8m to 12m. There is also a similar number of curved or crescent-shaped cropmarks that indicate either roundhouses or souterrains (underground chambers). The monument lies some 700m S of the River South Esk and is about 25m above sea level.
The scheduled area is irregular on plan to include the remains described above and an area around them within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map. The monument was first scheduled in 1996, but the documentation did not meet modern standards: the present amendment rectifies this.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to make a significant addition to knowledge and understanding of later prehistoric rural settlement in Scotland. The monument includes roundhouses that vary in size and form and there is evidence for at least one souterrain. It offers high potential to compare changing settlement form and character over time and to examine the functions of different building types. The monument's importance is enhanced by its association with the wider archaeological landscape of enclosures and unenclosed settlements in the valley of the South Esk. If this monument was to be lost or damaged, our understanding of the distribution and character of later prehistoric settlements would be diminished.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO65NW 59. The Angus Sites and Monuments Record reference is NO65NW0059.
Aerial Photographs: AN5916, AN5917, SC1013406.
Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/site/35776/
HER/SMR Reference
Angus SMR NO65NW0059
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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