MHG62959 - Linear 'earthwork' - Beaufort
Summary
Linear 'earthwork' and disused road at Beaufort.
Type and Period (3)
Protected Status
- None recorded
Full Description
The Inverness Field Club, led by Donald Coghill, surveyed a number of sites in the Aird area between 1987 and 1989. Beaufort.
Running towards the river and at the east side of the castle and on a lower level is a very eroded rampart on which stands a row of mature lime trees. A disused roadway is terraced into the slope on its west side and parallel, which may have led to the rear of old Castle Dounie. <1>
A trackway is shown clearly to the east of the castle site on a lower former river terrace on the OS 1st Edition map and there may just be the vaguest hints of sections of a parallel bank on its east side showing in Scottish Gov/SEPA LiDAR data. A line of mature trees can certainly be seen following this same line in vertical aerial photography which would fit with Coghill's decription. Whether the 'rampart' is indeed a constucted feature rather than a result of the natural lifting of the ground around the bases of the trees can only be verified by closer investigation. <2> <3> <4>
Sources/Archives (4)
- <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. Appendix 1B No. 161.
- <2> SHG23755 Image/Map: Ordnance Survey. 1873-6. Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map: Inverness-shire. Digital.
- <3> SHG29248 Dataset/Geospatial Data: Atkins & BLOM. 2011-12. LiDAR for Scotland Phase 1 - DSM. Atkins & Blom. XY
- <4> SHG29455 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph/Vertical: Get Mapping. 2023. Getmapping aerial photography 2023.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 5081 4287 (85m by 301m) (2 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH54SW |
| Civil Parish | KILTARLITY AND CONVINTH |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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