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Latitude: 56.6773 / 56°40'38"N
Longitude: -3.0353 / 3°2'7"W
OS Eastings: 336659
OS Northings: 754428
OS Grid: NO366544
Mapcode National: GBR VJ.06XH
Mapcode Global: WH7QB.BFVG
Entry Name: Loch of Kinnordy, crannog 500m NW of Balbrydie
Scheduled Date: 3 March 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5640
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: crannog
Location: Kirriemuir
County: Angus
Electoral Ward: Kirriemuir and Dean
Traditional County: Angus
The monument is a crannog, an artificial island of the later prehistoric or early historic period, on which a small settlement would have been constructed.
The crannog survives as a mound 2.5m to 3m high and about 80m in diameter, situated in wet, often flooded ground at the east end of the Loch of Kinnordy.
The area to be scheduled is centred on the crannog and measures 120m in diameter, to include the crannog and an area around it in which features and artefacts associated with its use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a wet site in which organic artefacts and the remains of timber structures, not normally preserved in dry sites, may survive. This crannog is of particular importance as there are few such wet sites known in eastern Scotland.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NO35SE 7.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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