Oblique aerial view of Balnagown Castle and policies, near Kildary, Easter Ross, looking NE.

Description Oblique aerial view of Balnagown Castle and policies, near Kildary, Easter Ross, looking NE.

Date 2000

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1906913

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The focus of this image is Balnagown Castle, much extended and remodelled in the 19th-C but possibly including part of a late-medieval tower house. The policies contain an associated range of buildings and landscaping. Key sites visible in this image include formal gardens (e.g. an Italian Garden) and a hedged walk (all to right of Castle, but somewhat obscured by trees); a medieval deer park; the "Grieve's Cottage", formerly barn, gighouse and byre (in foreground, halfway between Castle and bottom edge of photo), with Stables just to their left; and the main entrance gates (in foreground, at junction of curving drive and A9). An enigmatic site just visible here is a linear feature traversing the middle of that part of the field occupying the lower left corner of the image, more clearly seen on Canmore as two straight parallel lines. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2019/15

External Reference P11593

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1906913

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap