Balloan
Plough Marks (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Balloan
Classification Plough Marks (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Balloan Park
Canmore ID 76704
Site Number NH64SE 66
NGR NH 678 432
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/76704
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH64SE 66 678 432.
Trial trenching 700m to the NE of palisaded enclosure NH64SE 42 revealed plough furrows, probably formed by ard points, which had been scoured and sealed by alluvial gravels averaging 0.7m thick. Further deposits of this gravel, elsewhere in the same field, suggest that prehistoric fields were inundated by a catastrophic flood which may have deposited as much as 40,000 cubic metres of alluvium on the area of the present field.
Sponsors: Morrison Construction, HS.
J Wordsworth 1991u.
