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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 650387
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/650387
NC70SW 13 7169 0225.
(NC 7169 0225) Shale Beads found A.D. 1840 (NAT)
OS 6"map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907)
Shale beads were found at Rovie farm steading near the site of the old church.
Name Book 1873.
Some cists, containing skeletons and some shale beads, were found a few years ago immediately to one side of Rovie House, on the top of a bank which looks very much like an old sea beach.
L Tait 1870.
No further information.
Visited by OS (R D L) 8 July 1963.
