MHG26680 - Enclosure - Balblair Wood

Summary

Enclosure in Balblair Wood

Type and Period (1)

ENCLOSURE (Undated)

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None recorded

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NH54SW 33 506 444

See also NH54SW 64

(On boundary between parishes of Kilmorack and Kiltarlity and Convinth).

The Inverness Field Club, led by Donald Coghill, surveyed a number of sites in the Aird area between 1987 and 1989. There are what appear to be faint traces of an oval enclosure 13 yards x 9 yards with an entrance at the south end 44 yards further west there is a rampart 30 yards long running N-S between two hollows. <1>

Note: Site not visible on aerial photographs so location based on grid coordinates. (T. Blackie 21/06/23)

Sources/Archives (1)

<1> SHG2356 Text/Manuscript: Jacks, S E (ed.). 1989. Some unrecorded sites in the Aird noted between Oct 1987 & May 1989. Inverness Field Club. Digital. no. 75.

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Grid reference	Centred NH 5060 4440 (60m by 60m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH54SW
Civil Parish	KILMORACK
Civil Parish	KILTARLITY AND CONVINTH
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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https://canmore.org.uk/site/116685 (View HES Canmore entry for this site)

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