Ruthven | Canmore

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Building(S) (Post Medieval), Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Ruthven

Classification Building(S) (Post Medieval), Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 78613

Site Number NH62NW 31.03

NGR NH 6019 2723

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/78613

Digital Images

General oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the earthwork, bank and the possible island dwelling with the remains of the crannog adjacent and the remains of the buildings and enclosures in the foreground, taken from the WSW.

DP 025106

General oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the earthwork, bank and the possible island dwelling with the remains of the crannog adjacent and the remains of the buildings and enclosures in the foreground, taken from the WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

4/4/2007

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NE.

DP 189350

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

19/2/2014

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NE.

DP 189351

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

19/2/2014

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1695333

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1994

© RCAHMS

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the WNW.

DP 025105

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the WNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

4/4/2007

© Crown Copyright: HES

General oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the earthwork, bank and the possible island dwelling with the remains of the crannog adjacent and the remains of the buildings and enclosures in the foreground, taken from the SW.

DP 025107

General oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the earthwork, bank and the possible island dwelling with the remains of the crannog adjacent and the remains of the buildings and enclosures in the foreground, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

4/4/2007

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1695334

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1994

© RCAHMS

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1695343

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1994

© RCAHMS

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township centred on a parallel row of grazing sheep, taken from the WNW.

DP 025110

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township centred on a parallel row of grazing sheep, taken from the WNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

4/4/2007

© Crown Copyright: HES

Aerial view of Ruthven previous settlement, Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking NW.

SC 1944412

Aerial view of Ruthven previous settlement, Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking NW.

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

1/9/1999

© Courtesy of HES (James S Bone)

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NNW.

DP 189352

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

19/2/2014

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1695335

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1994

© RCAHMS

Aerial view of Ruthven Farmhouse and Steading near Dores, Inverness-shire, looking E.

DP 342630

Aerial view of Ruthven Farmhouse and Steading near Dores, Inverness-shire, looking E.

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J S Bone

3/2/2012

© Courtesy of HES (James S Bone)

Oblique aerial view of Loch Ruthven crannogs and Tom Buidhe enclosure, looking NE.

DP 189349

Oblique aerial view of Loch Ruthven crannogs and Tom Buidhe enclosure, looking NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

19/2/2014

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the NE.

DP 025103

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

4/4/2007

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1695344

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1994

© RCAHMS

Aerial view of Ruthven previous settlement, Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking W.

SC 1944411

Aerial view of Ruthven previous settlement, Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking W.

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

1/9/1999

© Courtesy of HES (James S Bone)

Aerial view of remains at Ruthven, near Dores, Inverness-shire, looking S.

DP 342621

Aerial view of remains at Ruthven, near Dores, Inverness-shire, looking S.

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J S Bone

3/2/2012

© Courtesy of HES (James S Bone)

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the NW.

DP 025104

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

4/4/2007

© Crown Copyright: HES

Aerial view of Tom Buidhe, W end of Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking NE.

SC 1944413

Aerial view of Tom Buidhe, W end of Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking NE.

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

1/9/1999

© Courtesy of HES (James S Bone)

General oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the earthwork, bank and the possible island dwelling with the remains of the crannog adjacent and the remains of the buildings and enclosures in the foreground, taken from the WSW.

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NE.

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NE.

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the WNW.

General oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the earthwork, bank and the possible island dwelling with the remains of the crannog adjacent and the remains of the buildings and enclosures in the foreground, taken from the SW.

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the township centred on a parallel row of grazing sheep, taken from the WNW.

Aerial view of Ruthven previous settlement, Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking NW.

Oblique aerial view of Ruthven township and enclosures, looking NNW.

Oblique aerial view.

Aerial view of Ruthven Farmhouse and Steading near Dores, Inverness-shire, looking E.

Oblique aerial view of Loch Ruthven crannogs and Tom Buidhe enclosure, looking NE.

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the NE.

Oblique aerial view.

Aerial view of Ruthven previous settlement, Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking W.

Aerial view of remains at Ruthven, near Dores, Inverness-shire, looking S.

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the buildings and enclosures, taken from the NW.

Aerial view of Tom Buidhe, W end of Loch Ruthven, S of Inverness, looking NE.

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Administrative Areas

Council Highland
Parish Dores
Former Region Highland
Former District Inverness
Former County Inverness-shire

Activities

Field Visit (19 March 1993)

RCAHMS Afforestable Land Survey, Upper Strathnairn, Highland

NH62NW 31.03 6019 2723

At least three much-reduced buildings and the remains of several small enclosures occupy low-lying pasture about 200m to the N of Ruthven farmhouse. The buildings are rectangular and range in size from 12.2m to 19.7m in length by between 5.5m and 6.1m in breadth over walls reduced to stony banks spread to about 1.7m in thickness and up to 0.3m in height.

(USN93 362-4)

Visited by RCAHMS (PJD), 19 March 1993.

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