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Mains Of Balbegno
Ring Ditch (Prehistoric), Souterrain (Prehistoric)
Site Name Mains Of Balbegno
Classification Ring Ditch (Prehistoric), Souterrain (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 36136
Site Number NO67SW 6
NGR NO 6420 7320
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36136
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fettercairn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO67SW 6 642 732.
(Location cited as NO 6420 7322: nominated as Site of Regional Significance).
Air photography has recorded the cropmarks on a gentle slope at an altitude of 75m OD. They comprise: a ring-ditch with a Z-shaped cropmark in the entrance, a possible ring-ditch (to the NE), and other cropmarks (one of them an X-mark) in the same field.
[Air photographic imagery listed].
NMRS, MS/712/35.
Field Visit (October 1981)
Mains of Balbegno NO 642 732 NO67SW 6
The cropmark of a penannular enclosure, measuring about 23m in diameter within its ditch, is revealed 80m NE of Mains of Balbegno farmsteading.
RCAHMS 1982, visited October 1981
(DES 1977, 19)