Wester Sinnahard

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Souterrain(S) (Iron Age)(Possible), Unenclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)

Site Name Wester Sinnahard

Classification Souterrain(S) (Iron Age)(Possible), Unenclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 17130

Site Number NJ41SE 17

NGR NJ 472 138

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17130

Digital Images

SC 1005219

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the SSE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

27/7/1983

SC 1014963

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the ESE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

DP 281428

Oblique aerial view.

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Historic Environment Scotland

24/7/2018

DP 281429

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Historic Environment Scotland

24/7/2018

SC 1005218

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the SE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

27/7/1983

SC 1011765

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pits, rig, possible unenclosed settlement and souterrains at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the S.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1011766

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pits, rig, possible unenclosed settlement and souterrains at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the SSW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1014964

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the E.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1014965

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the ENE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1011761

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pits, rig, possible unenclosed settlement and souterrains at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the NNE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 2371763

Wester Sinnahard, NJ41SE 17, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 1005220

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the ESE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

27/7/1983

SC 1011760

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pits, rig, possible unenclosed settlement and souterrains at Wester Sinnahard, looking to theNE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1011763

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pits, rig, possible unenclosed settlement and souterrains at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the SW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1014962

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the ESE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1014977

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the N.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1005217

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the SSE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

27/7/1983

SC 1011762

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pits, rig, possible unenclosed settlement and souterrains at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the W.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 2371762

Wester Sinnahard, NJ41SE 17, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 1011764

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pits, rig, possible unenclosed settlement and souterrains at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the SSW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1014978

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement at Wester Sinnahard, looking to the NNW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

Collections

Administrative Areas

Council Aberdeenshire
Parish Towie
Former Region Grampian
Former District Gordon
Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ41SE 17 472 138.

(Location cited as NJ 4720 1380). Air photography (AAS/78/9/RS/14, 18-19, AAS/83/10-11/R27/7-11 and AAS/84/8-10/R20/4-5, flown 25 July 1984) has recorded the 'slightly comma-shaped' cropmarks of three possible souterrains in arable ground at an altitude of 235m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/46.

Cropmarks have revealed at least three comma- or crescent-shaped marks, indicating either the sites of souterrains or ploughed-out round-houses, in this cultivated field, which slopes gently down to Red Myre, an area of poorly-drained, low-lying ground immediately SW of Wester Sinnahard steading (NJ41SE 91). Nothing is visible of any of them.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 29 February 2000.

References

External Links

Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record

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