Balneaves Cottage | Canmore

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Pit(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Balneaves Cottage

Classification Pit(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Ring-ditches 2 And 3

Canmore ID 35461

Site Number NO64NW 28

NGR NO 60595 49654

NGR Description NO 6059 4964 , NO 6059 4967 and NO 6072 4966

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35461

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Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NNW.

SC 1013451

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NNW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

7/7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NNW.

SC 1013452

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NNW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

7/7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the S.

SC 1013521

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the S.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

8/7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the NE.

SC 1720729

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

SC 2410143

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division)

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the ENE.

SC 1013864

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the ENE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

SC 1720708

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/7/1996

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SE.

SC 1720721

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SSE.

SC 1720727

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

SC 1720612

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1977

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1720696

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/7/1994

© Crown Copyright: HES

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

SC 1720706

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/7/1996

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 842603

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1982

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the E.

SC 1013865

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the E.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1720695

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/7/1994

© Crown Copyright: HES

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

SC 1720707

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

5/7/1996

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the W.

SC 1720725

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the ESE.

SC 1720728

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the ESE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

SC 1720629

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1982

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1720631

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1982

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the S.

SC 1720720

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the S.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the NW.

SC 1720724

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SW.

SC 1720726

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

SC 1720609

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1977

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

SC 1720610

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1977

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1720632

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1982

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SW.

SC 1720719

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the W.

SC 1013454

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the W.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

7/7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSE.

SC 1013522

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

8/7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

SC 1720613

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1977

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

SC 1720630

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1982

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the WNW.

SC 1720718

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the WNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

18/8/1998

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NW.

SC 1013453

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

7/7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSW.

SC 1013519

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

8/7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSE.

SC 1013520

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

8/7/1982

© Copyright: Ian Ralston. Courtesy of HES.

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

SC 2410142

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division)

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

SC 2410144

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division)

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NNW.

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NNW.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the S.

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the NE.

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the ENE.

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SE.

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SSE.

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

Oblique aerial view.

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the E.

Oblique aerial view.

Balneaves Cottages, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, centred on the cropmarks of a pit-defined cursus and ring-ditches.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the W.

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the ESE.

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the S.

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the NW.

Oblique aerial views centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SW.

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the SW.

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the W.

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSE.

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

Oblique aerial view (copy stored with MS/1018 - excavation archive).

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the NE terminal of a pit-defined cursus with ring-ditches, pits and cropmarks adjacent, taken from the WNW.

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the NW.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSW.

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the pit defined cursus, enclosed cremation cemetery, rectilinear enclosure, ring ditch and rig at Balneaves, looking to the SSE.

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

Balneaves Cottage, NO64NW 28, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Administrative Areas

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

Activities

Field Visit (March 1978)

RCAHMS: The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of Lunan Valley and Montrose Basin, Angus District

Balneaves Cottage 2 NO 606 497 NO64NW

At the terminal of the pit-alignment (NO64NW 27) the crop-marks of at least three ring-ditches have been recorded, the largest of which measures about 18m in diameter.

RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978

Aerial Photographic Transcription (10 January 1992 - 16 January 1992)

Aerial Photographic Transcriptions

An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.

External Reference (14 October 2011)

Scheduled (with NO64NW 27, NO64NW 52 and NO64NW 124) as 'Balneaves Cottage, cursus and settlement SE of...'

[Outline description and situation described].

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 14 October 2011.

References

External Links

Angus Historic Environment Record

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