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Kirkton
Enclosure (Prehistoric), Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Kirkton
Classification Enclosure (Prehistoric), Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Hillhead Of Ardersier
Canmore ID 14321
Site Number NH75NE 7
NGR NH 78146 56452
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14321
- Council Highland
- Parish Ardersier
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH75NE 7 781 564.
NH 781 564. Air photography has revealed the crop-marks of at least three, and possibly four, ring-ditches in a sloping field about 250m SSE of Kirkton farmhouse.
RCAHMS 1979; visible on RCAHMS air photograph IN 2659: flown 1976.
Air photographs show several ring-ditches in an arable field as marks in cereal crop. The roughly circular ring-ditches measure approximately 6m to 9m across within narrow ditches. There are a number of individual pits in the immediate vicinity of the ring-ditches.
Information from Historic Scotland, June 1992.
