Badenyon
Natural Feature(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Badenyon
Classification Natural Feature(S) (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 75179
Site Number NJ31NW 5
NGR NJ 3427 1899
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/75179
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Glenbuchat
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ31NW 5 3427 1899
(Location cited as NJ 342 189). While checking vertical aerial photographs held by Grampian Regional Council, a discontinuous circular cropmark was noted on a gentle SE-facing slope. Another rectilinear cropmark (?longhouse) seen in same field.
M Greig 1991d.
(Location cited as NJ 3427 1899 and name as Badenyon). Vertical air photography (SDD/0566/180/092) has recorded a discontinuous circular cropmarks and what may be the rectilinear cropmark of a longhouse (further to the N) on a gentle SE-facing slope in an area of arable ground at an altitude of 350m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/43.
(Reclassified as cropmarks: nil antiquity). These cropmarks have been recorded at the edge of an arable field immediately E of Badenyon farmsteading (NJ31NW 16). Inspection of the aerial photograph (cited correctly as OS 66/180/092, flown 22 July 1966) upon which they are recorded suggests that the features previously identified as an enclosure and possible longhouse are of natural origin.
On the date of visit the field was under grass and no archaeological features were visible.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 26 September 2000.
