Oblique aerial view of homestead and hut circles at The Ord, near Lairg, Sutherland, looking N.

Description Oblique aerial view of homestead and hut circles at The Ord, near Lairg, Sutherland, looking N.

Date 1998

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

Catalogue Number SC 1896315

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 (upper left), of Bronze Age date, was initially identified as a henge or robbed bell cairn, now thought to be a homestead defended by a ditch. A hut circle is faintly visible a few metres beyond. At lower 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 lower right of the image is a large enclosure with turf and stone enclosure bank. The A839 road borders the lower and right edges of the image, with Little Loch Shin to right. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2019/15

External Reference P10724

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1896315

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap