Monument record MHG39746 - Balbeg

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 4522 3197 (4m by 4m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH43SE
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish URQUHART AND GLENMORISTON
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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Full Description

NMRS NH43DE63
RCAHMS 1997, URQ97 257

Hut circle stands in an extensive group of small cairns on the crest of a low ridge in open moorland. Oval plan, 9.7m NW to SSE and 7.1m across within a wall reduced to a stoney bank, 0.5m high and 2.1m thick. The entrance is on the SSE. The cairns, as many as 72 can be identified, are concentrated in a 50m wide band, stretching for c. 275m NE-SW along the crest of a ridge. One cairn overlies the NE arc of the hut circle

Info from Dr H. Robinson April 2005

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Dr Harry Robinson. 04/2005. Glenconvinth Water Treatment Works Draft Notes. Draft Notes.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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