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Latitude: 57.0535 / 57°3'12"N
Longitude: -2.3613 / 2°21'40"W
OS Eastings: 378181
OS Northings: 795883
OS Grid: NO781958
Mapcode National: GBR XB.LS02
Mapcode Global: WH8PV.PZS3
Entry Name: Upper Balfour, cairns, house, & field system 500m to 1000m SW of
Scheduled Date: 3 June 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7879
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse; Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (
Location: Durris
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Stonehaven and Lower Deeside
Traditional County: Kincardineshire
The monument comprises the remains of a prehistoric circular house and a field system, comprising at least 200 field clearance cairns and field banks; there are also two burial cairns and a ring cairn. The hut circle measures 9.5m in diameter.
The area to be scheduled is irregular on plan and measures a maximum of 450m SW-NE and 315m NW-SE, to include the hut circle, field system and all but one of the cairns and areas around the visible parts of these features in which other remains are likely to survive, all as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well-preserved and complex prehistoric field system, with accompanying house and burials. It has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement, agriculture and burial. It is of particular importance because few complexes of this size have survived to modern times.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO 79 NE 28.
References:
Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries (1913) Aberdeen Journal Notes and Queries, Vol. 6, 113.
RCAHMS (1984) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of North Kincardine, Kincardine and Deeside District, Grampian Region, The archaeological sites and monuments of Scotland series no 21, 30, No. 189, Edinburgh.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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