Balnagowan Wood
Human Remains (Period Unknown)
Site Name Balnagowan Wood
Classification Human Remains (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 15155
Site Number NH85NW 3
NGR NH 81608 55125
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15155
- Council Highland
- Parish Ardersier
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH85NW 3 8160 5512
(NH 8160 5512) Human Remains found here AD. 1848 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)
A human skull and bones were dug up, in 1848, by roadmen, from a gravel pit. There was no coffin of any sort.
Name Book 1870.
No further information could be ascertained from local enquiry, and the skull and bones could not be located.
Visited by OS (R D), 11 August 1964.
Field Visit (May 1978)
Milton of Balnagowan NH 816 551 NH85NW 3
A human skull and bones were found about 1848.
RCAHMS 1979, visited May 1978
(Name Book, Inverness, no. 8, p. 17; OS 6-inch map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed. (1906), sheet i)