Old Maps of Black Isle, Highlands - Francis Frith
Take a look at our selection of old historic maps based upon Black Isle in Highlands. Taken from original Ordnance Survey maps sheets and digitally stitched together to form a single layer, these maps offer a true reflection of how the land used to be.
History of Black Isle, in Highland and Ross and Cromarty | Map …
Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Black Isle like this: Black Isle, the peninsula between the Beauly and the Moray Firths and the Firth of Cromarty, comprising parts of …
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Black Isle - Wikipedia
The Black Isle (Scottish Gaelic: an t-Eilean Dubh, pronounced [ən̪ˠ ˈtʲʰelan ˈt̪uh]) is a peninsula within Ross and Cromarty, in the Scottish Highlands. It includes the towns of Cromarty and Fortrose, and the villages of Culbokie, Resolis, Jemimaville, Rosemarkie, Avoch, Munlochy, Tore, and North Kessock, as well as numerous smaller settlements.
Maps of Scotland, 1560s-1950s - National Library of Scotland - Map …
View Maps of Scotland with thumbnail images. Filter list below: (eg. 'Ortelius', 'descriptio', 'North Britain', 'roads', 'tourist') Jump to a century: 1500-1599 ; 1600-1699 ; 1700-1799 ; 1800-1899 ; 1900-1950s; Select the map you wish to view (listed chronologically): 1500 [1558-1566] - Anon - Scotia: Regno di Scotia [1572] - Tommaso PORCACCHI ...
Images of early maps on the web: 12b. British Isles - Map History
‘Map Index’ (a large site with a good range of maps and map types, mostly 19th and 20th centuries and mostly high res.; imaginatively, for the city centre there are three comparative treatments of the same area: from the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1844), John Bartholomew’s map for the Edinburgh & Leith Post Office ...
Secrets of the Black Isle - Current Archaeology
2020年2月7日 · Just north of Inverness lies a fertile peninsula known as the Black Isle. Located between the inner Moray/ Beauly Firths and the Cromarty Firth, this area’s rich natural resources have attracted settlers for thousands of years – something attested by several years of winter fieldwalking, which explored soil ploughed by rather more recent ...
Castlecraig - Wikipedia
Castlecraig, also known as Craig Castle and Castle Craig, is a 16th-century fortification located on the north shore of the Black Isle in northern Scotland. It is on the south coast of the Cromarty Firth, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north-east of Culbokie and 19 …
ARCH (Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands) rolled out a pilot project in 2009/2010 to determine how best to record and make available memories of sites, features and buildings in three communities on the western end of the Black Isle in Easter Ross.
The Black Isle and Beyond
Castle Craig, Resolis - a 16th Century ruin on the north side of the peninsula. Image copyright Karen Thorburn. Sea views are ever-present as the Black Isle is surrounded on three sides by the Cromarty, Moray and Beauly Firths to the north, east and south respectively, and its western boundary is marked by the Rivers Conon and Beauly.