Pitcalzean
Enclosure (Period Unknown)
Site Name Pitcalzean
Classification Enclosure (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 15282
Site Number NH87SW 11
NGR NH 8165 7030
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Nigg (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
At NH 8165 7030, in a pasture field on the SW slopes of the Hill of Nigg, are the remains of the enclosure described above. It survives as a circular platform about 15.0m in diameter and 0.5m high but the surface is uneven and somewhat stony. There appears to have been a peripheral wall, now very indistinct, and this impression is heightened by quarrying in the W arc. The platform has slumped in the SW where there may have been an entrance. The remains of this enclosure are too vague to allow classification.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 9 June 1981.
Field Visit (October 1977)
Pitcalzean NH 816 703 NH87SW
What may be the mutilated remains of a circular enclosure 16m in diameter over all are visible in rough pasture 1.4km E of Pitcalzean House.
RCAHMS 1979, visited October 1977
