Balcathie | Canmore

Pit Alignment (Prehistoric)

Site Name Balcathie

Classification Pit Alignment (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 35384

Site Number NO63NW 9

NGR NO 606 394

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35384

Digital Images

DP 081033

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the rig, taken from the NNE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

25/7/2009

DP 081035

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the rig, taken from the WNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

25/7/2009

SC 2011248

Balcathie, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, centred on cropmarks including those of an enclosure, and showing two pit-alignments in the centre right of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/7/1995

SC 1860173

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

SC 2011242

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 1860174

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

SC 1860175

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

SC 2011243

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

DP 081034

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the rig, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

25/7/2009

SC 2409952

Balcathie, NO63NW 9, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

SC 1859299

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 1860171

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

SC 1860176

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1981

DP 081032

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the rig, taken from the SE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

25/7/2009

SC 1720692

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 1788030

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 2011247

Balcathie, oblique aerial view, taken from the WNW, centred on the cropmarks of two pit-alignments.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/7/1995

SC 2013759

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 1720679

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 1720681

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 2011244

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

28/6/1994

SC 2011245

Balcathie, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, centred on the cropmarks of two pit-alignments, and showing further cropmarks including those of an enclosure in the top right-hand corner of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/7/1995

SC 2011246

Balcathie, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, centred on the cropmarks of two pit-alignments, and showing further cropmarks including those of an enclosure in the centre right of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

7/7/1995

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Administrative Areas

Council Angus
Parish Arbirlot
Former Region Tayside
Former District Angus
Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO63NW 9 606 394.

Aerial photography has revealed the cropmarks of an alignment of at least four large pits 200m SW of Balcathie farmsteading. It is visible from c.NO 6067 3944 to c.NO 6068 3939, a distance of about 35m and runs in a N-S direction, curving towards the E at its S end. A second pit-alignment (NO63NW 10) has been recorded 60m to the W.

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 12 April 1999

References

External Links

Angus Historic Environment Record

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