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Bannerbank, hut circle 965m WNW of Bannerbank is a prehistoric domestic settlement situated on the upland landscape of Renfrewshire, Scotland. The monument comprises a single hut circle, a circular or sub-circular dwelling foundation typical of Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement patterns across northern Britain. Such structures represent the domestic core of early agricultural communities who occupied the Scottish highlands and their margins.
The site sits upon bedrock formed from felsic lava and tuff of Dinantian age, part of the Mississippian volcanic sequence that characterises much of the Midland Valley geology. This volcanic foundation would have influenced local soil formation and land use practices adopted by its prehistoric inhabitants. The upland setting reflects the settlement strategies of communities who exploited both higher moorland and valley resources during the first and second millennia BC.
The hut circle is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12815, recognising its importance to understanding early settlement and domestic life in western Scotland. Though now visible only as an earthwork feature in the landscape, such monuments preserve evidence of building techniques, social organisation and subsistence patterns of Iron Age communities whose material culture and settlement choices shaped the ancient Scottish countryside.
Bannerbank, hut circle 965m WNW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12815. View the official record →
Bannerbank, hut circle 965m WNW of Bannerbank is a prehistoric domestic settlement situated on the upland landscape of Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12815.
Bannerbank, hut circle 965m WNW of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM12815.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moyne, cairn 930m E of (0.7 km), Middleton, hut circle and enclosure 540m WSW of (1.3 km), Duncarnock, fort (3.2 km).
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Bannerbank, hut circle 965m WNW of stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Dinantian, bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is felsic lava and felsic tuff.