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Balnahanaid
Burial Ground (Period Unknown), Church (Period Unknown)(Possible), Long Cist(S) (Early Medieval), Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned)(Possible), Beaker (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Balnahanaid
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unknown), Church (Period Unknown)(Possible), Long Cist(S) (Early Medieval), Barbed And Tanged Arrowhead (Flint)(Period Unassigned)(Possible), Beaker (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Baile Na H-annaide; Loch Tay
Canmore ID 24478
Site Number NN63NE 6
NGR NN 6689 3795
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24478
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kenmore (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN63NE 6 6689 3795.
(NN 6690 3800) Baile na h-Annaide is on the N side of Loch Tay. 'The burial place of this "annat" is partly within the present garden, partly in the field just outside it, where the tenant told me that his plough met stone slabs.'
W J Watson 1926
There is no trace of the church, but stone coffins have been turned up here.
W A Gillies 1938
MacKenzie was shown a portion of an old wall, traditionally a fragment of an ancient church. A cist was found in a small field between the lake and the farmhouse and the undressed slabs of schist are still to be seen.
J B MacKenzie 1901
No trace of any church or cist stones was seen at Balnahanaid, now a ruined and deserted croft.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 26 August 1969
Annait is a 9th to 10th century term for a church-site of any kind abandoned during that period, and not subsequently re-used as the site of a focal church.
A Macdonald 1973
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (JM) 11 September 1975
A third pilot season of the Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project was undertaken by Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD) in August 1998 on the northern shores of Loch Tay. The programme of work included ... geophysical survey and trial trenching at Balnahanaid.
NN 669 379 At Balnahanaid east, five trenches at two localities produced very different archaeological remains. The relict channel of a stream or burn was examined, at the side of which a very large post-hole was discovered. The long-held suspicion that the site of Balnahanaid had connections with an early church was confirmed when two cist burials and two possible cist burials were discovered. Furthermore, up to six uncisted burials were also noted in the trench. All of these features were orientated very close to an E-W alignment. No bones were recovered from the graves without cists and only very fragile fragments of human long bones were recovered from those within cists. This area also produced evidence of prehistoric activity in the form of a group of pits and scoops. One of the pits produced a complete AOC bell Beaker, broken in situ. Several fragments of calcined bone were found within the scoops as well as two flakes of flint.
An interim report will be lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, National Trust for Scotland, Russell Trust, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
J A Atkinson, M Donnelly, O Lelong and G MacGregor 1998
The trenches at Balnahanaid east, which produced the graves (including the long cists), the beaker and flints (including a possible barbed-and-tanged arrowhead), were centred on NN 6689 3795. Further trial trenching in 1998 at Balnahanaid west is described under NN63NE 78. A fuller report is included in Atkinson et al 1999 (RCAHMS MS 725/208).
Information from RCAHMS (SDB) 1 March 2006
J Atkinson, M Donnelly, O Lelong and G MacGregor 1999
