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Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 586368
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586368
ND16 2 GEISE 1 ('Pict’s house') ND/1036 6480
Possible broch in Olrig, Caithness, consisting of the remains of a grass-covered mound most of which has been removed by quarrying; it stands next to the small Geise Burn, a tributary of the river Thurso. There are no clues as to the nature of the original building which may be the 'Pict’s house' referred to by Pococke in 1760 [3].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 16 SW 9: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 118-19, no. 430: 3. Pococke 1760 in Kemp 1887, 133: 4. Swanson (ms) 1985, 630-31
E W MacKie 2007
