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Hatchbank souterrains is an Iron Age underground structure located in Kinross-shire, Scotland. These passage-like chambers, or souterrains, were typically domestic or defensive features built into the bedrock during the Iron Age, and this example lies situated within the Late Devonian Stratheden Group, a geology of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate that would have provided both the material and the structural conditions necessary for their construction. The site is now protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument.
Souterrains of this type served varied functions in Iron Age communities, possibly used for storage, refuge, or as part of domestic settlements. The Stratheden bedrock at Hatchbank would have determined the character of the excavation, with the variable layers of sandstone and conglomerate creating distinct workable strata. The souterrains' survival to the present day, despite their age and the weathering of their local geology over two millennia, reflects both the solid nature of the underlying rock and the substantial effort invested in their original construction.
The monument remains a significant record of Iron Age settlement and engineering practices in the region, offering insight into how communities adapted their building techniques to local geological conditions and developed subsurface architecture for purposes we can only partly reconstruct through such surviving remains.
Hatchbank, souterrains 220m N of and 280m NNW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7607. View the official record →
Hatchbank souterrains is an Iron Age underground structure located in Kinross-shire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7607.
Hatchbank, souterrains 220m N of and 280m NNW of dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a souterrains 220m n of and. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Hatchbank, souterrains 220m N of and 280m NNW 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 SM7607.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hatchbank, souterrain 450m NNW of (0.2 km), Blacknowes, barrow 170m S of (1.6 km), Classlochie, ring-ditches 300m ESE of (1.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Hatchbank, souterrains 220m N of and 280m NNW of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Hatchbank, souterrains 220m N of and 280m NNW of stands on Stratheden Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.