Balcathie | Canmore

Pit Alignment (Prehistoric)

Site Name Balcathie

Classification Pit Alignment (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 35374

Site Number NO63NW 10

NGR NO 606 395

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35374

Digital Images

SC 2011248

Balcathie, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, centred on cropmarks including those of an enclosure, and showing two pit-alignments in the centre right of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/7/1995

SC 1860173

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

SC 2011242

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 1860174

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

SC 1860175

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

SC 2011243

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 2409953

Balcathie, NO63NW 10, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

SC 1860176

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

SC 1788030

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 2011247

Balcathie, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, centred on the cropmarks of two pit-alignments.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/7/1995

SC 1720690

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 2011244

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 2011245

Balcathie, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, centred on the cropmarks of two pit-alignments, and showing further cropmarks including those of an enclosure in the top right-hand corner of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/7/1995

SC 2011246

Balcathie, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, centred on the cropmarks of two pit-alignments, and showing further cropmarks including those of an enclosure in the centre right of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/7/1995

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Administrative Areas

Council Angus
Parish Arbirlot
Former Region Tayside
Former District Angus
Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO63NW 10 606 395.

Aerial photography has revealed the cropmarks of an irregular alignment of large pits 140m WSW of Balcathie farmsteading. It is visible from c.NO 6068 3952 to c.NO 6060 3944, a distance of about 105m and runs in a NNE-SSW direction, curving towards the S. A second pit-alignment (NO63NW 9) has been recorded 60m to the E.

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 12 April 1999

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External Links

Angus Historic Environment Record

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