Scheduled Monument
Balvattan, settlement and field system, RothiemurchusSM9338
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 09/11/2000
- Type
- Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive, rather than ritual or funerary); field clearance cairn, cairnfield; field or field system; hut circle, roundhouse
- Local Authority
- Highland
- Parish
- Duthil And Rothiemurchus
- NGR
- NH 91496 8907
- Coordinates
- 291496, 808907
Description
The monument comprises the remains of a very extensive later prehistoric settlement.
At least 12 hut circles lie scattered on the E and NE slopes of Hill of Tullochgrue, to the E of Balvattan. The hut circles are in the order of 11m to 13m in overall diameter, and generally sit on slight terraces or shelves. Surrounding them is a field system, in a variable state of preservation and visibility, formed of lines of small fields, defined by clearance cairns and occasional ruined stretches of walling. Where it can be determined, plot sizes of 20m to 30m across are the norm.
The area to be scheduled measures a maximum of about 850m NNE-SSW by a maximum of 500m due E-W, and is very irregular on plan, bounded in only a few places by fence lines and track edges. All existing roads, estate tracks and fences within the scheduling area are to be excluded from scheduling, to simplify maintenance. The area is shown in red on the accompanying map extract.
References
Bibliography
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