Monument record MHG4416 - Enclosure etc, Inshriach Nursery

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 8739 0730 (160m by 160m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH80NE
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish ALVIE
Geographical Area BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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NH80NE 22 874 073
Air photography has revealed the upstanding remains of what appears to be a motte and bailey immediately W of Inshriach Nursery, originally known as South Kinrara. This has yet to be verified by ground survey. Information from J Harden, 1989. <1>

Recorded in survey by Dr Thomas C. Welsh, Sept. 1998. <2>

The site is located at the southern end of a curving ridge, tending roughly north-east/south-west, with structures clustered around two prominent knolls, and sloping steeply down to boggy pasture to the west and north. The site is almost entirely comprised of structural remains covered in turf, including: the remains of a substantial, enclosure wall, running approximately N/S, with at least 4 building structures abutting to the west (to the outside of the enclosure), and the whole defining the western boundary of the site; a central enclosure with an entrance through the western boundary wall, leading to a clearly defined track approaching from the south-west; a building structure which lies in a hollow immediately east of the central enclosure, forming its eastern boundary; a collapsed limekiln located to the south of the enclosure (possibly of a more recent date than the other remains); at the northern edge of the site, two pronounced channels, which cut the boundary wall, but do not appear to be for drainage. The site is bounded to the east by the road. Immediately east of the road lie further remains, forming at least one, low-lying enclosure. This does not appear to be a defensive site, more like stock enclosures with accompanying buildings.
The structures are not marked on the 1st edition O.S. and should not be confused with the bobbin mill (which is marked) at the site of Inshriach Nursery.
Graham Robins, Community Archaeologist for Badenoch & Strathspey, 12/99

Access Audit 64 - HAW 1/2003

Sources/Archives (6)

  • --- Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: B/W Negative. .
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  • <1> Text/Publication/Article: Harden and Bone, G and J. 1990. 'Aerial photographic surveys', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1990, p.21-2, 23, 24. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 21-2, 23, 24. p21.
  • <2> Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Welsh, Dr TC. 09/1998. The Invisible Site Finder: A personal view of the role of interpretive survey in archaeology, based on thirty years experience as an independent site-finder, and a comment on the low visibility imposed by restricted access to publication. Unaffiliated. .

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Record last edited

May 10 2016 2:58PM

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