Archaeology Notes

Event ID 651816

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC96NE 18 9990 6626.

(NC 9993 6627) Pict's House (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Caithness, 1st ed., (1877)

The Pict's house was removed about 1866 during cultivation, leaving a mound one or two feet high. Nothing of any importance was found in it, but sea shells and burnt bones and wood can still be picked up on it.

Name Book 1873.

Several ploughed-up large stones suitable for dry stone wall construction, and a darker colour of soil, are all that remain to indicate the site of this antiquity, now part of a cultivated field. Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 24 November 1964.

(NC 9990 6626) Mound (NR) (site of) (NAT)

OS 6"map, (1967)

There is no trace of this mound in a field now under pasture.

Visited by OS (J B) 8 September 1981.