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The second trench (23 x 3m) was cut from the centre of the homestead and ran E across the enclosure bank. The first trench (8x3m), within the enclosure, revealed considerable tree root disturbance, although a cobbled surface was recorded. The site consists of a circular banked enclosure, c 20m in diameter two trenches were opened in order to discover the nature of the enclosure wall and assess tree root damage. A community archaeology project in May and June 2005, carried out as part of Perthshire Archaoelogy Week, involved two evaluation trenches through a later Iron Age homestead ( NN95NE 3) in Black Spout Wood, to the E of Pitlochry. It is probable that the original diameter of the homestead was c.27.0m when complete. The remainder of the wall and much of the interior has been destroyed by quarrying. Only the S half survives, as a stone wall c.2.7m thick with an outer face four courses high in the SW. The "circular building" erroneously called a fort by Dixon, is in fact the remains of a homestead (c/f NN44SE 7). Some of the stones on the side nearest the burn have been removed but the circle is quite apparent. The path passes through, and has partly destroyed, the NW side. (Area: NN 953 577) This fort is about 150 yards below the Black Spout waterfall and on the top of a steep bank over-looking the burn. It is supposed to date from Edward I's reign. At Edradour, on the top of a steep den, are the remains of a circular building, 60' in diameter internally with walls about 8' thick, called the Black Castle.
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