Bennybeg


Site type: cursus

Parish: Muthill

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NN 8655 1903

Lat / long: 56.34980132, -3.836770292

Alternative names: Findal Cottages

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

Approximately 250m to the SW of Findal Cottages, on the crest of a low, flat-topped ridge to the ENE of Bennybeg Craig, aerial photographs revealed a pit-defined cursus showing up as cropmarks.

It consists of a subrectangular enclosure, measuring approximately 110m from NNE to SSW by about 35m in width. At the northern corners, two "horns" extend out approximately 22m, set at a slight angle to the rest of the monument. Outside the SSW end of the cursus there is a large pit, and to the E of the cursus there is an alignment of at least six pits aligned from NW to SE.

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created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, last updated Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm