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Balnuick
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Balnuick
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 284294
Site Number NH92NE 34.01
NGR NH 99083 26273
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/284294
- Council Highland
- Parish Duthil And Rothiemurchus
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH92NE 34.01 NH 99083 26273
This burnt mound is situated 560m NE of Balnuick farmsteading, on the SW side of an un-named stream that runs down the SE-facing slope from a spring some 290m to the NW. Roughly circular on plan, the grass- and gorse-grown mound measures 6.8m in diameter by about 0.6m in height. Although an eroded area on the S side of the mound has exposed what appears to be burnt stones, a turf was removed from the top of the mound revealing a core comprising angular fragments of burnt stone and small fragments of charcoal contained within a matrix of loose black soil.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 24 October 2006.
Field Visit (24 October 2006)
This burnt mound is situated 560m NE of Balnuick farmsteading, on the SW side of an un-named stream that runs down the SE-facing slope from a spring some 290m to the NW. Roughly circular on plan, the grass- and gorse-grown mound measures 6.8m in diameter by about 0.6m in height. Although an eroded area on the S side of the mound has exposed what appears to be burnt stones, a turf was removed from the top of the mound revealing a core comprising angular fragments of burnt stone and small fragments of charcoal contained within a matrix of loose black soil.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 24 October 2006.
