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Bellie

Pit Alignment (Prehistoric)

Site Name Bellie

Classification Pit Alignment (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 16959

Site Number NJ36SW 19

NGR NJ 3485 6044

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Bellie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Morayshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ36SW 19 3485 6044

See also NJ36SW 32.

(Location cited as NJ 349 605). Air photography (CUCAP AGK 86 dated 23 July 1962, BKG 90 dated 28 July 1972, CAG 51-2 dated 27 July 1976 and RC8 CG 105-6 dated 7 August 1977: GRC/AAS imagery summarised) has recorded a 'palisade' (classified as a pit-alignment) running approximately E-W over a distance of at least about 100m in arable ground at an altitude of about 5m OD.

Information from CUCAP and Aberdeenshire Archaeological Service, June 1997.

NMRS, MS/712/19.

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