Balnageith
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Balnageith
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 68563
Site Number NJ05NW 83
NGR NJ 0243 5784
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68563
- Council Moray
- Parish Forres
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ05NW 83 0243 5794
On the gravel flood plain of the Findhorn and on the wartime airfield; a linear cropmark with a rounded corner was investigated. A triangular ditch, c4m wide and 2.5m deep was uncovered. An adjacent smaller ditch, c2.5m by 1.5m was also examined.
G D B Jones and I Keillar 1989.
Further investigations show that the two ditches reported in 1989 are a single V-section ditch, c3m wide and 1.5m deep. (The 1989 report of a 2.5m deep ditch was a typing error.) The sump is stone revetted.
Behind the corner there are five large square post-holes, one 400mm by 400mm. No artefacts or carbon found.
G D B Jones and I Keillar 1990b.
The NW angle of this Roman enclosure were examined by Jones and Keillar in 1990. Within a ditch 2.7m wide by 1.9m deep lay remains of a clay rampart containing six square or subrectangular post-holes of an angle-tower. Further post-holes suggested a timber front to the rampart.
S S Frere 1991
Trial Trench (September 1989 - September 1990)
Manuscripts, photos and slides from the Barri Jones collection pertaining to the 3 trial trenches across the line of the enclosure at Balnageith.
On the gravel flood plain of the Findhorn and on the wartime airfield; a linear cropmark with a rounded corner was investigated. A triangular ditch, c4m wide and 2.5m deep was uncovered. An adjacent smaller ditch, c2.5m by 1.5m was also examined.
G D B Jones and I Keillar 1989.
Further investigations show that the two ditches reported in 1989 are a single V-section ditch, c3m wide and 1.5m deep. (The 1989 report of a 2.5m deep ditch was a typing error.) The sump is stone revetted.
Behind the corner there are five large square post-holes, one 400mm by 400mm. No artefacts or carbon found.
G D B Jones and I Keillar 1990b.
Ground Penetrating Radar (1990)
Survey reports from the Barri Jones collection pertaining to the enclosure at Balnageith.
