Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675627

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM93NW 31 c.9035 3810.

(NM 9035 3810) Supposed Site of (NAT) )

Beregonium (NR) )

(NM 9025 3920) Site of (NAT) Sraid Mine (NR)

(NM 9023 3819 to 9042 3779) Sraid a' Mhargaidh (NR)

(Undated) OS annotation.

The Pictish city of Beregonium is said to have been situated between Dun Mac Sniachan and Dun Bhaile an Righe. A street, said to have been 10 feet wide and paved, running between the two hills was called 'Sraid a' Mhargaidh' (ie Market Street). Another, known as 'Sraid Mine', is said to have run from the NW end of New Selma, close past the steadings of Kiel Crofts. Two portions of footpaths, a little NE of the crofts, and a cart track are considered to be on the course of Sraid Mine.

The RCAHMS states that the spurious name 'Beregonium', a mis-reading of Ptolemy's 'Rerigonium', was mistakenly applied by Hector Boece in his 'Scotorum Historiae'.

Name Book 1871; RCAHMS 1975.