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Windhill

Ring Ditch (Prehistoric)

Site Name Windhill

Classification Ring Ditch (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 12680

Site Number NH54NW 21

NGR NH 5350 4850

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Urray (Ross And Cromarty)
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

No surface traces visible.

Visited by OS 20 January 1978

Further aerial photographs have been taken of this site, which appear to show it as a possible double pit circle. (See Archive for details.)

Information from J Harden 1989.

Activities

Field Visit (January 1978)

Windhill NH 535 485 NH54NW

Air photography has revealed the crop-mark of a ring-ditch 600m NE of Tomich House; it measures about 5m in diameter within a ditch about 1.5m broad. Visible on RCAHMS AP 1976.

RCAHMS 1979, visited January 1978

Aerial Photographic Interpretation (4 March 2014)

Following a review of the aerial photographs, the pit circle recorded previously was not identified and has been removed as a classification.

Information from RCAHMS (KMM) 4 March 2014

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