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Aerial view of the village of Lairg, Sutherland, looking E.

SC 1868194

Description Aerial view of the village of Lairg, Sutherland, looking E.

Date 2003

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1868194

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This view shows the village of Lairg (Canmore ID 91465) with the main part of the village on the far side of the river. Lairg is a significant junction of routeways for the north of Scotland and is served by the Inverness-Wick/Thurso railway/station (Canmore ID 5131). Lairg has been and still is an important cattle and sheep market. The surrounding landscape of Lairg has an abundance of prehistoric remains - settlements of hut circles and field systems (Canmore IDs 4981, 5072, 5137 ) and chambered cairns (Canmore IDs 4984, 4985). Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2019/15

External Reference P11878

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1868194

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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