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Balcathie

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Four Poster Stone Circle (Bronze Age)(Possible), Pit(S) (Period Unknown), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Unenclosed Settlement (Period Unknown)

Site Name Balcathie

Classification Four Poster Stone Circle (Bronze Age)(Possible), Pit(S) (Period Unknown), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Unenclosed Settlement (Period Unknown)

Canmore ID 35378

Site Number NO63NW 3

NGR NO 606 391

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35378

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NO63NW 3 606 391.

NO 606 391. Ring-ditches, Balcathie: visible on RCAHMS aerial photographs taken in 1979.

Aerial photography has recorded the cropmarks of several ring-ditches and pit features scattered across a field 250m W of Cotton of Balcathie. Probable settlement remains include at least three faint crescentic marks (probably houses) with further arcs of ditch and crescentic shapes representing some six further ring-ditches. Possible short double pit-alignments are visible at c.NO 6070 3921 and c.NO 6051 3914, each no more than 12m long. In the same field, cropmarks of further pit-defined features, souterrains and an enclosure (NO63NW 11) have been recorded.

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 12 April 1999

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