Oblique aerial view of the Bellevue and Tarradale Mains area, N shore of Beauly Firth, looking NE.

Description Oblique aerial view of the Bellevue and Tarradale Mains area, N shore of Beauly Firth, looking NE.

Date 18/7/2018

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

Catalogue Number DP 343654

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This photo includes Tarradale House, Spittal Shore and the shoreline itself. The shoreline has an 18th-C bank, part of a land reclamation project. The mudflats include a number of fish traps, some of which can be discerned in the photo. One particularly extensive structure may have been a pier rather than a fish trap. A sub-circular green patch in the rough grazing in lower right sector of image may be the round barrow recorded on HER. The nearer of 2 dark green fields in upper right corner of image has the remains of the "hospital-house of Edirdouer" mentioned in a charter of 1299-1311, which no doubt gave the name to Spittal Shore. Note that in medieval times the word "hospital" could signify a hostelry for travellers, a "bede house" (almshouse), or a medical establishment. Tarradale House is visible among trees at centre right, but the nearby possible motte is neither seen on the ground nor seen in this image. The extensive Tarradale Quarry is prominent at upper left corner of image, as an irregular overgrown area projecting into a rectangular cornfield. The HER record for a quarry nearby appears to be in the wrong place, probably due to an imprecise grid reference. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2020/58

External Reference D3547

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2108948

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