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Multi-periodSite Name: Shaman''s Lodge (Glen Cochill)
Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Dunkeld  Nearest Village: Scotston
Map Ref: NN9059141247
Latitude: 56.550422N  Longitude: 3.781295W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Perth and Kinross

Described as a new find in September 2014, The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for these fascinating hut circles and their surroundings - see their entry for Shaman’s Lodge, Glen Cochill, Perthshire.

TNA give us directions for finding this site and includes photographs and a site description. TNA says: "Consisting of two slightly larger-than-average ovals of walled stone, probably Bronze Age in date, the first impression was of a remarkably well-preserved site (and that it is!), seemingly of an elongated stretch of walling, with a central wall that split it into two halves. Each ‘hut circle’ was found to be between six and seven yards across, with the two conjoined architectural features giving an overall NW-SE length of 14 yards. But the more we looked at this, the more obvious it became that this was originally one single hut circle—the lower southeastern one—with an additional one that was added and attached onto the northwestern side at a later date, probably several centuries later. Lower earlier hut circle, with upper later hut circle attached Walking around the structure we found that the very well-preserved walls—about 2 feet wide in places and rising a foot or so above the compacted peat—had been built onto a raised platform of earth. This was no ordinary hut circle! The ground beneath it seems to have been raised and supported and on the southern side in particular it is notable that other building stones are compacted into the peat. There may even be the remains of a secondary outer wall on this southern edge, where it seems that the entrance was made. Small group of cairns 15 yards away Here’s the curious bit: immediately outside the northwestern and southern walls are small prehistoric tombs, or cairns. Not just one or two, but more than a dozen of them, all constructed within 20 yards of this curiously raised double hut circle. Literally, a small prehistoric house of some form was raised in the centre of a prehistoric graveyard—and it doesn’t end here" (see the rest of the TNA entry for more details).

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
NN9041 : White Cairn by Lis Burke
by Lis Burke
©2006(licence)
NN9041 : Hut Circle by Robert Bone
by Robert Bone
©2007(licence)
NN9041 : Glen Cochill by Iain Macaulay
by Iain Macaulay
©2005(licence)
NN9041 : General Wade's Military Road by Lis Burke
by Lis Burke
©2006(licence)
NN9041 : Glen Cochill, bridge over Cochill Burn by Astrid H
by Astrid H
©2010(licence)

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