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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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Digital Images

SC 1695130

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1976

DP 340949

Aerial view of Muir of Ord, oblique view of industrial estate and part of Black Isle showground, looking NW.

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

26/8/2007

SC 1695041

Windhill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a ring-ditch or pit-circle.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

16/7/1996

DP 343651

Near aerial view of Baxters, Tomich and Windhill Industrial Estates, Muir of Ord, Black Isle, looking SE.

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

18/7/2018

DP 343688

Oblique aerial view of part of the southern section of the industrial estate at Muir of Ord, Black Isle, looking E.

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

23/7/2008

SC 2362495

Windhill, NH54NW 21, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

SC 1859721

Windhill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a ring-ditch and a possible pit-circle. A standing stone is visible in the top right-hand corner of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

26/7/1995

SC 1695021

Windhill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNE, centred on the cropmarks of a ring-ditch and a possible pit-circle.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

26/7/1995

SC 1695039

Windhill, oblique aerial view, taken from the S, centred on the cropmarks of a ring-ditch or pit-circle.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

16/7/1996

DP 343162

An oblique aerial view of Muir of Ordnear Muir of Ord, Black Isle, looking S.

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

1/10/2013

SC 1695129

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1976

DP 340960

Aerial view of Tomich and Wyndhill Industrial Estates, S of Muir of Ord, Black Isle, looking SW.

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

26/8/2007

DP 343652

Near aerial view of enclosure cropmarks in field near Windhill, Muir of Ord, Black Isle, looking SE.

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

18/7/2018

SC 1695022

Windhill, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on the cropmarks of a ring-ditch and a possible pit-circle.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

26/7/1995

DP 343689

Near aerial view of the ring ditch at Windhill, Muir of Ord, Black Isle.

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

23/7/2008

SC 2362496

Windhill, NH54NW 21, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

SC 1695040

Windhill, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, centred on the cropmarks of a ring-ditch or pit-circle.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

16/7/1996

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Administrative Areas

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)

RCAHMS: The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of The Black Isle

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)

2014 RCAHMS Aerial Survey

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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