Bogantassie
Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Field Boundary (Prehistoric), Ring Ditch House (Prehistoric)
Site Name Bogantassie
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Field Boundary (Prehistoric), Ring Ditch House (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 103547
Site Number NJ50NE 36
NGR NJ 5817 0566
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/103547
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Lumphanan
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Field Visit (24 August 1994)
NJ50NE 36 5817 0566
Situated on a ridge in rough pasture and lying to the E of a conifer plantation, there are some small cairns, a ring-ditch house and a length of bank. The house, which is bisected from E to W by a wire fence and severely truncated by ploughing to the S of the fence-line, measures 9.8m in diameter within a stony bank 2.2m thick and 0.2m high. The penannular ring-ditch abuts the inner face of the house wall and is 1.5m in average width, but is slightly broader on the E.
To the N and NE of the ring-ditch house there is a length of bank and a spread of small cairns which extend over an area of about 1ha.
(CRAIG94 62)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 24 August 1994
Measured Survey (8 September 1994)
RCAHMS surveyed the ring-ditch house at Bogantassie with plane-table and alidade on 8 September 1994 at a scale of 1:100. The resultant survey was redrawn in ink in 1995.
Note (1999)
This group of monuments is situated on a ridge at an altitude of 280m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/49.
