Aerial view of Inverness Royal Academy and Holm Farm residential area at Culduthel, Inverness, looking S.

Description Aerial view of Inverness Royal Academy and Holm Farm residential area at Culduthel, Inverness, looking S.

Date 8/4/2015

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

Catalogue Number DP 343488

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content In the foreground of this image the new Inverness Royal Academy is under construction. A cist was found at a site in the lower left sector of the image. At lower right, the prominent house with two dormer windows is the former Culduthel Hospital (1917-1989) for infectious diseases, occupying a late 18th-C residence. The Holm Farm Road housing estate (upper right sector of image) overlies a rich archaeological site, with records of roundhouses, enclosure, furnace, metal-working, palisade, cremation and inhumation, ranging from Bronze Age to Pictish. In the small triangular housing estate just beyond Culduthel Mains Road, a possible Neolithic mortuary enclosure is recorded, with an enclosure ditch nearby. At County Houses, the older dwellings on the right-hand side of Culduthel Road, a sawmill was recorded on the 1st-edition OS map, while a "pond bay", which may be connected with it, is visible emerging from trees a little further up the road on the left. A roundhouse is recorded in the light brown field to left of the pond bay, with a row of white, semi-detached houses beyond. With the eye of faith, on enlargement, several circular marks are visible in the far left sector of this field. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D3376

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2108775

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