Bellmuir
Building (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bellmuir
Classification Building (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Bellmuir Quarry
Canmore ID 75440
Site Number NJ83NE 52
NGR NJ 882 361
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Methlick
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ83NE 52 8825 3619
See also NJ83NE 33.00, NJ83NE 35.00, NJ83NE 36.00, NJ83NE 39.00, NJ83NE 40, NJ83NE 53.00, NJ83NE 54, NJ83NE 55, NJ83NE 56.
Rectangular structure on OS 1:10,000 map, but unnamed, immediately to N of NJ83NE 36.01 (GRC BMR/1), and thus slightly off the crest of the E-W trending ridge on which the former site sits. This longhouse, with slight indications of internal sub-division, measures 11.2m by 3.6m internally; and 14.4m by 6.54m overall. The entrance position is uncertain, but appears most likely to have been on the S side. Its NW corner appears to overlie a length of slightly-hollowed track, occupying part of a former rig-and-furrow system. This eastern extremity of the Central Zone of Bellmuir is marked by a number of short lengths of rig-and-furrow, a number apparently having subsequently served as tracks which follow the first terrace back from the Ythan.
Information from Field Survey Report by R J Mercer and I B M Ralston, January 1989.
SMR No. GRC 49
Mrs M Greig (Grampian Regional Council), 5 June 1992.
