Alternative Names Balinan, Scardroy
Site type ENCLOSURE, FARMSTEAD, TOWNSHIP
Canmore ID 103091
Site Number NH25SW 7
NGR NH 2057 5172
Council HIGHLAND
Parish CONTIN
Former Region HIGHLAND
Former District ROSS AND CROMARTY
Former County ROSS AND CROMARTY

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Archaeological Notes

NH25SW 7 centred on 206 516

A township comprising one roofed and seven unroofed buildings and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet xcvi). One roofed building within an enclosure, six unroofed buildings and another enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 5 March 1996

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Notes A township and two farmstead with enclosures (Nosas Site Survey Nos 417-440) are situated in a shallow, sheltered SE facing valley, above a tributary of the Scardroy Burn, 1km W of Scardroy Lodge. Although steep in places the area is generally fertile and intensively grazed. Traces of earlier cultivation remain in places.

The township (Nosas Site Survey Nos 416-424) is centred on NH 206 517 and is located on the steeper slopes N of the burn. It comprises 8 buildings, an enclosure, a pit and a head dyke. The buildings survive as low rectangular and sub rectangular stone and turf footings. Three of the smaller buildings are probably former shielings and there are discontinuous lengths of earth banks and enclosures, bounded by a sinuous head dyke along the W side of the site. The township was once probably more extensive but has been partly destroyed by the building of the later farmsteads.

The remains of a farmstead, and numerous enclosures (Nosas Site Survey Nos 429-431 and 437-440), are centred on NH 2057 5163 and lie on the S side of the small burn. The largest enclosure is multi-sided and has, within it, several clearance cairns and traces of broad cultivation rigs.

A further farmstead, probably a sheep farm, occupies the valley floor in a relatively sheltered position and comprises two substantial buildings, one of which is shown roofed on the First edition OS of 1881 and two enclosures (Nosas Site Survey 425-428)


Information from North of Scotland Archaeology Society

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