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Balnuick Wood
Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Balnuick Wood
Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 285749
Site Number NH92NE 57
NGR NH 9830 2610
NGR Description Centred on 9830 2610
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285749
- Council Highland
- Parish Duthil And Rothiemurchus
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH92NE 57 NH 9830 2610
About twelve small cairns are scattered across an area of about 1.5ha immediately above a shelter belt that drops down the W flank of the ridge between Balnuick Wood and Neavuie. The cairns, the largest measuring some 4m in diameter by 0.5m in height, mainly lie on moorland, but the scatter also extends into the improved ground to the S. There, the stones have been gathered into four long banks, which extend some 450m W to the road at the foot of the slope. These banks, which are set at intervals of between 70m and 100m, incorporate numerous large boulders and overlie several hollowed trackways that traverse the slope. The size of the boulders suggests that they have been gathered mechanically.
Visited by RCAHMS (SH, TIP, GB) 13 October 2006.
