Brackla House
Enclosure (Prehistoric), Bead (Glass), Samian (Pottery)(Roman)
Site Name Brackla House
Classification Enclosure (Prehistoric), Bead (Glass), Samian (Pottery)(Roman)
Alternative Name(s) Brackla Farm
Canmore ID 15178
Site Number NH85SE 24
NGR NH 85783 51331
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15178
- Council Highland
- Parish Cawdor
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH85SE 24 857 513.
NH 857 513. The crop-mark of a circular enclosure is visible on air photographs about 250m WNW of Brackla House. It measures about 30m in diameter within a narrow ditch and has an entrance on the E.
RCAHMS 1978.
This ring ditch was cut across in 1990. Carbon, clinker, a yellow glass pendant bead, and a sherd of Samian ware were found. The ditch was shallow, 300mm. The carbon has gone for dating. Pottery and bead with Manchester University.
G D Jones and I Keillar 1990e.
Excavation of a circular ditched enclosure 26m in diameter, with an internal palisade-trench, yielded a later second-century sherd of Samian, Dr. 31, re-used as a lid.
S S Frere 1991.
NH 855 524 A series of reconnaissance flights by the Moray Aerial Survey along the south side of the Moray Firth, between Banff and Inverness, since 1984-9 has identified a significant number of presumed prehistoric settlement and mortuary sites. During the survey a ditched enclosure, with a possible souterrain and second enclosure, was examined on the edge of the World War II airfield behind the Brackla Distillery, off the B9090 road between Cawdor and Nairn. Across the period of survey exceptionally clear crop marks were produced by this site in barley, growing on class 2 land, 40m above sea level. Sample excavation was undertaken in 1989 for a variety of reasons.
Ruth Pelling 1990
Field Visit (May 1978)
Brackla House NH 857 513 NH85SE
The crop-mark of a circular enclosure is visible on air photographs about 250m WNW of Brackla House. It measures about 30m in diameter within a narrow ditch and has an entrance on the E.
RCAHMS 1978, visited May 1978
Ground Penetrating Radar (1989)
Sub-surface radar survey carried out by J Trust in 1989 proved ineffective at Brackla House.
Project (1989 - 1990)
Geophysical surveys including: sub-surface radar, resistivity and magnetometry in 1989 and by J Trust.
Resistivity (September 1990)
Resistivity survey carried out by J Trust in 1990 showed some definition of the enclosure.
Magnetometry (September 1990)
Magnetometry survey carried out by J Trust in 1990 showed some definition of the enclosure.
Trial Trench (1990)
Ten metre trial trench cut near entrance of enclosure at Brackla House in 1990.
NH 855 524 A series of reconnaissance flights by the Moray Aerial Survey along the south side of the Moray Firth, between Banff and Inverness, since 1984-9 has identified a significant number of presumed prehistoric settlement and mortuary sites. During the survey a ditched enclosure, with a possible souterrain and second enclosure, was examined on the edge of the World War II airfield behind the Brackla Distillery, off the B9090 road between Cawdor and Nairn. Across the period of survey exceptionally clear crop marks were produced by this site in barley, growing on class 2 land, 40m above sea level. Sample excavation was undertaken in 1989 for a variety of reasons.
Ruth Pelling 1990
