Gilchrist
Classifications: Rig And Furrow(Medieval),Roundhouse(Prehistoric),Enclosure(Prehistoric) (Possible),Pit(Period Unknown) (Plural)
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Location Details
Local authority: Highland
Parish: Urray (Ross And Cromarty)
Former region: Highland
Former district: Ross And Cromarty
Former county: Ross And Cromarty
Further details
Site number: NH54NW 26
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 12685
Related resources
Gilchrist, NH54NW 26, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Gilchrist, NH54NW 26, Ordnance Survey index card, page numbe…
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Oblique aerial view of the Bellevue and Tarradale Mains area…
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
An oblique aerial view of Belleview Cottages, near Muir of O…
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Aerial view of Bellevue Tarradale cropmark features, Muir of…
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Aerial view of Balvattie/Gilchrist, Tarradale cropmark featu…
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Aerial view of Balvattie/Gilchrist, Tarradale cropmark featu…
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Aerial view of Balvattie/Gilchrist, Tarradale cropmark featu…
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Aerial view of Balvattie/Gilchrist, Tarradale cropmark featu…
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
An oblique aerial view of Bellevue Cottages, Gilchrist, Urra…
Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
1 Note
Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 784709
NH54NW 26 5422 4901
NH 542 490. Air photography has revealed the crop-mark of what is probably a circular enclosure 350 m SE of Gilchrist farmhouse; it measures about 20 m in diameter within a narrow ditch.
RCAHMS 1979; Visible on RCAHMS air photographs RC 1857-60, flown 1978
Further aerial photographs were taken of this enclosure. There appears to be a large pit to the NW of it.
(See Archive for details.)
Information from J Harden 1989.
Cropmark of circular ditched enclosure c 25m in diameter, with smaller ring of post-holes adjoining to the W; 200m NW of Bellevue Cottages.
J S Bone 1996k
Recent aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1995) suggest that this is a possible enclosure of uncertain function. It has an internal diameter of about 30m and a broad gap on the E side. About 10m NW of the enclosure the cropmark of a probable round house with an internal diameter of about 6m is visible. This was previously interpreted as a pit. An area of rig-and-furrow cultivation, about 120m wide, is visible running SW-NE for at least 250m immediately to the SE of the enclosure and at the SE side of the field. A circular cropmark (NH c.5428 4896) with an internal diameter of about 12-15m is situated about 30m SE of the enclosure. A number of other sites have been recorded in the surrounding area, including a barrow cemetery 600m to the SSE (NH54NW 25).
Information from RCAHMS (KJ) 23 June 1999.
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| Archive reference | Title | Catalogue level | Preview |
|---|---|---|---|
| B 80301 CS | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level |  |
| B 80302 CS | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level | |
| B 80303 CS | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level | |
| B 80304 CN/PO | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level | |
| B 80305 CS | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level | |
| B 80306 CS | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level | |
| B 80307 CN/PO | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level | |
| B 80308 CS | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level | |
| B 80309 CS | Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (J Harden) | Item Level | |
| B 80457 PO | Item Level | |
References
Bone J S. (1996k) 'Bellevue Cottages (Urray parish, Ross and Cromarty), cropmark', Discovery Excav Scot 1996 Page(s): 57
Grant E. (2023) Balvattie Cropmarks - Tarradale Through Time Excavation in Jennifer Thoms Discovery Excav Scot New 23 2022 Cathedral Communications Ltd, Wiltshire, England. Page(s): 112-113
RCAHMS. (1979d) The archaeological sites and monuments of the Black Isle, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region, The archaeological sites and monuments of Scotland series no 9. Edinburgh. Page(s): 17, No. 98 RCAHMS Shelf Number: A.1.2.ARC(9)
