Culbokie
Henge (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Culbokie
Classification Henge (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Teanagrain; Teanagrain Cottage
Canmore ID 12776
Site Number NH55NE 5
NGR NH 59454 57794
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12776
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Logie Wester
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH55NE 5 5945 5779.
(NH 5945 5779) Fort (NR)
OS 1:1,000 map, 1974.
Culbokie, Henge Monument: A ditch 26' wide encloses a roughly circular area averaging 48' in diameter The present width of an entrance to the E is 33'. The diameter from crest to crest of the banks varies from 90' to 96'.
Feachem (R W Feachem 1963) states that, at frist sight, this is a Class I henge, but as the bank runs across the entrance causeway only excavation can determine whether the bank was originally fully annular. If so, this can at best be called a proto-henge or hengiform earthwork. Whether henge or not, it is extremely likely to be of about 2nd or 3rd millenium B C date.
A A Woodham 1955, R W Feachem 1963.
Probable henge, as described above.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 19 January 1965
Class I henge.
H A W Burl 1969.
Hengi-form site.
G J Wainwright 1969.
No change.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) March 1989.
Field Visit (July 1979)
Teanagrain Cottage, Culbokie NH 594 578 NH55NE 5
Situated 150m W of Teanagrain Cottage there are the remains of what is probably a Class I henge, consisting of a ditch and external bank enclosing an area about 14.6m in diameter. The ditch (up to 4.1 m broad and 1.2m deep) is interrupted by a causeway 10.5m wide on the ESE; at this point the bank (up to 7.2m thick and 0.5m high) has been disturbed by a modern field-boundary.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1979
Woodham 1953, 75-6.
Measured Survey (17 April 1980)
RCAHMS surveyed the henge at Culbokie by plane-table and alidade at a scale of 1:100 on 17 April 1980. The plan was later redrawn in ink.
