Field notebook of A O Curle (RCAHMS). Titled 'Caithness No. IV'.

Description Field notebook of A O Curle (RCAHMS). Titled 'Caithness No. IV'.

Date 11/8/1910 to 7/9/1910

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number MS 36/14

Category Manuscripts

Scope and Content Field notebook with notes and sketches. p1 holed stones at Shurrery p1v Shurrery cairn p2 Shurrery standing stone & cairn (sketch plan) p3 Shurrery stone circle p3v footprint on rock face Port-an-eilein p4 p5 Brawlbin cairn p6v Sithean Mor p7v Brawlbin fort Cnoc an Ratha p9v Tigh a Bheameach enclosure; Loch Shurrery sites 13 August p13 Geise broch; Skinnet chapel & cross-slab p16 Scrabster broch; Holborn Head fort p17 Hill of Shebster (plan) p19v horned cairn Cnoc Freiceadain 16 Aug p22 Cnoc Freiceadain cairn p23v Achreamie cairn (Inv no 371) p24 Upper Dounreay stone row p26 Upper Dounreay chambered cairn p27 Upper Dounreay standing stones 17 Aug p28 Thing's Va broch p30 broch mound near last (Inv no 433) p30v Brimside Tulloch broch p31 Tulloch of Stemster broch p32v Stemster broch p33 Oust broch 18 Aug p35 Thurdistoft broch p35v Dunnet Church (Inv no 61) p36v mound excavated by Tress Barry; Hunspow cairn p37 Brough castle p39v Ham souterrain (sketch plan) p40v cairns nr Rattar House p41v Kirk o' Banks capel (Inv no 81) 20 Aug p42 Rossy Hillock cairn ; mounds nr West Murkle Farm 22 Aug p43v Broubster stone setting and standing stones p47 Tulach Buaile Asserie long cairn p49 Torr Ban na Gruagaich cairn p50 Carriside cairn p51v Loch Calder hut circles (Inv nos125-6) 23 Aug p52v Burnside Murkle broch p53v East Murkle cairn p54 Links of Greenland cairns; Links of Dunnet hut circles & cairn 57 sketch plan of Dunnet church 24 Aug p57v Dirlot stone row 25 Aug p59v Crosskirk broch p62 Lower Dounreay cairn p64v carved stone at Sandside House (Inv no 406) p65v stone frag at Sandside House (omitted from Inv as natural) p66v market cross at Reay p67v Nybster mound 31 Aug p68v Sibmister broch p69 Hill of Clindrag cairn and mounds around Olrig p72 sketch of bronze flataxe from Cairn of Howe p72v sketch & notes on Dirlot stone rows p74v Castle of Mey (rough plans) p77v Sutherland (now in ink and written out in full) 3 Sept 1910 notes on Curle's excavation of a hut circle on Kinbrace Hill (not in Journal no 3; PSAS vol45) 7 Sept p80v Tulloch of Shalmstry p81 Brawl Castle (sketch plan) p82 Hoy broch p82v Sordale Hill cairns p86v sketch of flint implement, Stemster p87 sketch of sandstone ring, Stemster

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