Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652702

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND03SW 1 0135 3065.

(ND 0135 3065) Cairns (NR)

OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1908)

A conflict took place near the junction of Allt Leanaidh Laoigh with the Berriedale River, between some Sutherland and Caithness men about some calves, stolen by the former. The dead were buried under these few small cairns.

Name Book 1877.

A few small, insignificant peat mounds, barely distinguishable on heathland.

Visited by OS (W D J) 16 June 1960.

Only natural features were noted.

Visited by OS (J M) 20 October 1982.