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Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Culdrain

Classification Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Strathbogie

Canmore ID 75336

Site Number NJ53SW 19

NGR NJ 522 337

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of cultivation terraces at Culdrain, looking to the ESE.
Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of cultivation terraces at Culdrain, looking to the ESE.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of cultivation terraces at Culdrain, looking to the ESE.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of cultivation terraces at Culdrain, looking to the SE.Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of cultivation terraces at Culdrain, looking to the NE.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Gartly
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ53SW 19 522 337

On steep slope above river terrace, a suite of at least five cultivation terraces.

I Ralston 1989g.

(Location cited as NJ 522 337). Culdrain. Air photography (AAS/85/05/R11(1)/4-6, flown 19 July 1985) has recorded a suite of at least five cultivation terraces hard against the railway line to the SE of Culdrain, Strathbogie. The location is in an area of rough grazing on a steep W-facing slope above the river terrace at an altitude of about 160m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/54.

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