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Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 586313
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586313
ND15 5 ACHIES 3 (‘Achies West’, 'Harpsdale')
ND/1305 5522
Site of a possible broch in Halkirk,. Caithness, reported by Anderson to have been destroyed in 1841 and to have had a well with clear water in it [3]. There is nothing to be seen now but a slight rise in the ground.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 15 NW 16: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 47, no. 180: 3. Anderson 1890, 185: 4. Swanson (ms) 1985 (ms), 652.
E W MacKie 2007
