Balnabroich

NO15NW 48 1088 5682.

Situated on a low rise within an area of heather-covered moorland overlooking a group of hut-circles (NO 15 NW 14), there are the remains of a building. Internally it measures 16.2m in length and varies from 3.5m in width at the NNW end to 5.2m at the mid-point and 2.8m at the SSE end; its walls have been reduced to turf-covered banks (up to 1.4m in thickness and 0.4m in height) and the entrance is situated midway along the W wall.

At the N end of the building there is an enclosure measuring 15m N-S by 9m within a low bank (1m thick and 0.4m high); it is defined by a bank which springs from the NE angle of the building and returns on the N side of the entrance.

Situated about 18m NNW of the enclosure there are the remains of a small building; it measures 3.7m NNW-SSE by 2.2m within stone wall-footings up to 0.8m in thickness and 0.2m in height and there is a possible entrance in the W side. The building appears to overlie a bank which extends past the W side of the larger building and enclosure.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 5 May 1987.

RCAHMS 1990

RCAHMS surveyed the hut circles, field system and Pitcarmick-type buildings at Balnabroich in 1987 at a scale of 1:2500. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:5000 (RCAHMS 1990, Fig. 108A).

RCAHMS surveyed a building (NO 1088 5682) at Balnabroich in 1988 at a scale of 1:250 with self-reducing alidade and plane-table. The site plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:500 (RCAHMS 1990, Fig. 227.2C).