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An oblique aerial view of Muir of Ord and Gilchrist near Muir of Ord, Black Isle, looking SSE.

DP 343163

Description An oblique aerial view of Muir of Ord and Gilchrist near Muir of Ord, Black Isle, looking SSE.

Date 1/10/2013

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

Catalogue Number DP 343163

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content A general view with the Black Isle Showground in the centre. To its left the Gilchrist promontory fort surrounded on three sides by lower marshy ground occupying former kettle holes. Recent (2018) excavation as part of the Tarradale Through Time project provided much more detailed knowledge of the promontory fort defences. A little to the left of the fort a linear feature and pits within a possible enclosure have been noted on aerial photographs, but not visible in this one. Above the promontory fort the structure on the lower left of the cluster of buildings is Gilchrist's medieval church, restored as a mausoleum in the 19th century, and surrounded by a churchyard and enclosing wall. In the fields above and to the right the church and below the linear woodland two roundhouses have been identified and a bronze age copper alloy axe and a medieval copper alloy brooch have been found. To the left of the church in the rough area a possible ring ditch has been recorded and above that are the Bellevue Cottages. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D3018

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2108442

File Format (JPG) JPEG bitmap

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