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

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Digital Images

SC 1725136

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1990

SC 1015017

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the ESE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

30/7/1984

SC 1015028

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the SE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1015030

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the NE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 2411354

Mains Of Balbegno, NO67SW 6, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 1015018

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the ENE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

30/7/1984

SC 1015027

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the S.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1725137

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1990

SC 1725138

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1990

SC 1970274

Aerial view of Fettercairn Distillery and Fettercairn Village, Aberdeenshire, looking SE.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

7/1982

SC 1967628

Aerial view of Balbegno Castle and Mains of Balbegno Farm, Fettercairn, Moray, looking NE.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

SC 1725139

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1990

SC 1967630

Aerial view of Balbegno Castle and Mains of Balbegno Farm, Fettercairn, Moray, looking NW.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

SC 2411355

Mains Of Balbegno, NO67SW 6, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 1015016

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the ESE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

30/7/1984

SC 1015031

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the N.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1725140

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1990

SC 1015019

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the N.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

30/7/1984

SC 1967625

Aerial view of Balbegno Castle and Mains of Balbegno Farm, Fettercairn, Moray, looking SE.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

SC 1015020

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the N.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

30/7/1984

SC 1015029

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the ring ditches, pits and rig, with the farmstead adjacent at Mains of Balbegno, looking to the ENE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 2411356

Mains Of Balbegno, NO67SW 6, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

Collections

Administrative Areas

Council Aberdeenshire
Parish Fettercairn
Former Region Grampian
Former District Kincardine And Deeside
Former County Kincardineshire

Archaeology Notes

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.

Activities

Field Visit (October 1981)

RCAHMS: The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of South Kincardine

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)

References

External Links

Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record

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