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Conon Bridge
Henge (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Conon Bridge
Classification Henge (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 12781
Site Number NH55NW 1
NGR NH 54293 55071
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12781
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Logie Wester
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH55NW 1 5429 5507
(NH 5429 5507) Earthwork (NR)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
Woodham calls this a henge monument consisting of a flat circular area 48' in diameter, surrounded by a ditch 9' wide, with an entrance causeway in the SE, 5' wide. A bank 12' wide surrounds the ditch but has no entrance to correspond with the causeway; the bank is 80' - 85' in overall diameter.
Feachem states that, at first sight, this seems to be a Class I henge, 75' in diameter measured from the crest of the bank, but only excavation can determine whether the bank was origianally fully annular; if it were so then, at best, the structure could be called a protohenge or hengiform earthwork. Whether henge or not, it is extremely likely to be of about 2nd or 3rd millenium BC date.
A A Woodham 1955; R W Feachem 1963.
This earthwork is as described above.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 22 January 1965.
Hengi-form site.
G J Wainwright 1969.
Class I henge.
H A W Burl 1969.
No change.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), March 1989.
Earthwork [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.
Field Visit (July 1979)
Conon Bridge NH 542 550 NH55NW 1
Immediately W of the Dingwall-Inverness road (A 9} there is an earthwork, probably a Class I henge, comprising a ditch and external bank which enclose an area measuring about 14.6m in diameter. The ditch is interrupted by a causeway on the SE, but there is no corresponding gap visible in the bank.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1979
Woodham 1953, 72-3; Feachem 1977, 67
Watching Brief (November 2009)
NH 54303 55103 A watching brief was undertaken in November
2009 during work associated with a house extension at
Sundowne. The development site was considered of interest
as it lies to the N of a henge (NH55NW 1). No archaeological
deposits or features were recorded.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Report: HCAU and RCAHMS
Funder: Mr G Stewart
