MHG3037 - Ballagan Farm

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Type and Period (1)

  • PIT ALIGNMENT (Iron Age - 550 BC to 560 AD)

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Pit-alignment, Ballaggan: Air photography has revealed the crop-mark of a pit-alignment running for about 70m from NW to SE immediately SE of Ballaggan farmhouse. There are indeterminate crop-markings to the E and SE.
RCAHMS 1979.

Tolan notes pit-circle at termination of alignment.
M Tolan 1988.

At the E terminal of the pit-alignment, air photographs show the remains of a pitted enclosure (30m in diameter) with traces of an internal feature which may be a palisade; the relationship between
the two is unclear.
Information from SDD (HBM), 1991.

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 7945 5253 (30m by 30m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NH75SE
Civil Parish PETTY
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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