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Ballaggan

Enclosure (Prehistoric)

Site Name Ballaggan

Classification Enclosure (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 14409

Site Number NH75SE 13

NGR NH 79732 52688

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Petty
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

There is a very clear internal structure, crescentic in shape and measuring some 5m across. There are individual pits in the immediate vicinity.

Information from SDD (HBM), 1991.

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Note (1979)

Ballaggan 1 NH 796 526 NH75SE 13

Air photography has revealed the crop-mark of an oval enclosure about 300m ENE of Ballaggan farmhouse. It measures about 9m in maximum diameter within a narrow ditch. Indeterminate crop-markings to the SW may be periglacial in origin. Visible on RCAHMS AP 1977.

RCAHMS 1979.

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