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An oblique aerial view of Shinness Quarry, The Airde, Lairg, Sutherland, looking SSE.
SC 1907012
Description An oblique aerial view of Shinness Quarry, The Airde, Lairg, Sutherland, looking SSE.
Date 2001
Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1907012
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content A wide view of the quarry area. In the right foreground are lime kilns and the flooded quarry itself lies above that and a little right, frozen over. Above and below the cut running from the quarry to the shore on the right are a number of rectangular footings. Around the highest knoll beyond and a little left of the quarry is another cluster of rectangular footings. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).
Accession Number 2019/15
External Reference P11656
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1907012
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
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