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Archaeologists and volunteers working at a Perthshire forest claim to have uncovered a “very exciting” find. Excavations have revealed a stone entrance to the Black Spout enclosure, which workers believe indicates an important local person lived there. Radiocarbon dating has also shown the site dates back to about 200 BC - it was originally though such homesteads were from the early centuries AD.

It is thought a large extended family would have lived there.

The Black Spout homestead, near Pitlochry, features a heavily-built enclosing wall, which would have contained a timber building.

Archaeologist David Strachan told the BBC Scotland news website that uncovering the unusual stone entrance gave them more important clues about the people who lived there. He said:

They are evidently quite high status or important big houses, you could make an analogy to the big country houses in that the vast majority of people living in the area would have been living in much less substantial timber buildings.

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