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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

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  • 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)

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)

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