Newton House
Causeway (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Newton House
Classification Causeway (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Balcarse
Canmore ID 68545
Site Number NH54NE 22
NGR NH 563 454
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68545
- Council Highland
- Parish Kirkhill
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH54NE 22 563 454
NH 44/54 OS 563 454 No.46
North side of Bacarse Farm road
At least 50 yards can be traced with certainty of what may have been a rampart or raised causeway, now very eroded, with silted up ditch on each side 5 yards apart and running NE-SW. There appears to be another parrallel ditch for a short distance on the south side. This linear earthwork survives in a small spinney and may be the last trace of the sounce, which was mentioned in the Wardlaw manuscript, as being at Kingillie in 1644. It is more likely to be an old road, built up in the marsh.
Coghill et al 1989
