Monument record MHG7011 - Rait Castle
Summary
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 8924 5296 (90m by 90m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH85SE |
| Old County | NAIRNSHIRE |
| Civil Parish | NAIRN |
| Geographical Area | NAIRN |
Map
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Full Description
Jim Bone APs 2003 - v clear double ditch surrounding natural knoll, possible that out ditch has slightly splayed entrance towards the SE - HAW 10/2003
NH85SE 3 8925 5296.
(Approx NH 894 527) Crop-mark possible palisaded site.
OS 6" map, annotated by A L F Rivet, Ass Archaeol officer, 18 January 1963; Visible on RAF APs CPE/Scot/UK/ 254: 3180-1.
NH 894 528. This is the same site as the crop-mark of the 'Earthwork, Raitcastle' noted by the RCAHMS in Marginal Lands survey of 1956-8. It has not been planned.
NH 8925 5296. There is nothing to be seen at site of crop-mark and no finds have been made. The oval mark, measuring aproximately 50m by 40m, encloses the relatively flat top of a natural hillock, and could be the site of a published enclosure.
Visited by OS (N K B) 19 November 1965.
Hillock cultivated. No trace of cropmark.
Visited by OS (R L) 10 December 1970.
Crop-markings indicate that this earthwork was enclosed by two ditches interrrupted on E, possibly for an entrance.
RCAHMS 1979; Visible on RCAHMS APs N 242, N 260-2: flown 1976 and 1977.
Futher photographs taken in 1979.
Visible on RCAHMS air photographs N 316-17: flown 1979.
Sources/Archives (2)
- --- SHG2672 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1978. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Nairn District, Highland Region. . 16, No. 112.
- --- SHG913 Text/Publication/Article: Keillar, I. 1986. ''In fines Borestorum': to the land of the Boresti', Popular Archaeol Vol. 7 April 1986, p.2-9. Popular Archaeol. 2-9. 7; illust.
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Record last edited
Jun 27 2008 4:18PM
