Scaniport Wood

Classifications: Roundhouse(Prehistoric) (Possible)

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Location Details

Local authority: Highland

Parish: Dores

Former region: Highland

Former district: Inverness

Former county: Inverness-Shire

Location accurate to the nearest 100 metres.

British National Grid (BNG) Coordinates: 263300, 839900

Ordnance Survey (OS) National Grid Reference: NH 633 399

Latitude: 57.42881Longitude: -4.27837

Datum: OSGB36 - NGR

Further details

Site number: NH63NW 32

National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 76680

Aerial view of Laggan House and Scaniport, Inverness, lookin

Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

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Aerial view of Cullaird Farm, SW of Inverness, looking SW do

Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

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1 Note

Category: Descriptive accounts

Event reference: 741828

NH63NW 32 633 399.

Air photography has revealed a variety of cropmarks in the field immediately SE of Scaniport Wood. A fine circular enclosure c14m in diameter lies c250m E of Scaniport. Within it is a pit circle c6m in diameter. (AP nos. 8903.06-10 and 8904.08 held in Inverness Museum; see also Archive.)
Information from J Harden 1989.

Information to follow.
RCAHMS (KB) 10 July 2000

References

Harden and Bone G and J. (1990) 'Aerial photographic surveys', Discovery Excav Scot 1990 Page(s): 23