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Balnuick
Lime Kiln (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Balnuick
Classification Lime Kiln (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 285021
Site Number NH92NE 46
NGR NH 9848 2585
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Duthil And Rothiemurchus
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH92NE 46 NH 9848 2585
This limekiln has been set into a S-facing slope in what is now a field of rough pasture 120m W of Balnuick farmsteading. On the date of visit the kiln was largely obscured by a dense cover of gorse, but it comprises a debris-filled pot, measuring about 2m in diameter by at least 1m in depth, within a ruined rubble wall up to 2m in thickness. The draw-hole is in the S side of the kiln. Adjacent to the W side of the kiln is a small U-shaped feature, open-ended to the S, which may have been some form of store. Its sides and N end are faced with drystone walling.
The kiln is depicted on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874-5, sheet xxxiv; 1903, sheet xxxiv); on the latter it is annotated 'Old Limekiln'.
Visited by RCAHMS (TIP, SH) 13 October 2006.
