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Aerial view of souterrain, Raitts, Badenoch & Strathspey, looking N.
SC 1944752
Description Aerial view of souterrain, Raitts, Badenoch & Strathspey, looking N.
Date 2/5/2000
Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1944752
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Raitts souterrain, by Lynchat near Kingussie, is shown here lying in an improved field with possible remnant rig cultivation running down slope beside this feature. The souterrain is the source of early modern traditions describing it as the hideout of a local robber gang. However, it is of probable iron age date and likely to have been associated with a roundhouse or similar structure above ground. If so, no trace of such a structure is now visible. The site was cleared by David Brewster, the then owner of Balavil Estate, as reported in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities, volume 5 (1865). More recent trial trenching adjoining the site was carried out by Rick Barton of ORCA, as part of investigations in advance of the planned dualling of the A9. Some worked stone tools and ceramics were found in two of these trenches. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).
Accession Number 2019/15
External Reference S1019
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