Oblique aerial view of hut circles, rig and furrow, and clearance cairns at The Ord, near Lairg, Sutherland, looking NE.
SC 1896308
Description Oblique aerial view of hut circles, rig and furrow, and clearance cairns at The Ord, near Lairg, Sutherland, looking NE.
Date 1998
Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1896308
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content The image includes part of The Ord, an extensive Scheduled Monument comprising chambered cairns, cairns, settlements and field systems, including numerous hut circles. A prominent circular feature (at lower left of image), of Bronze Age date, was initially identified as a henge or robbed bell cairn, now thought to be a homestead defended by a ditch. At centre right are two hut circles, with evidence of rig and furrow and probable field clearance cairns. In the open area between these two hut circles and the probable homestead there is an ill-defined hut circle. At centre right edge of image is part of a large, irregular enclosure within a turf and stone bank. Between it and the plantation is another hut circle, with field clearance cairns to its right. At top right corner of image the Little Loch Shin Dam regulates the flow of the River Shin. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).
Accession Number 2019/15
External Reference P10717
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