Archaeology Notes

Event ID 653176

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND06NE 2 0818 6822.

(ND 0818 6822) Brough (NR)

OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)

This low grassy mound, about 70ft in over all diameter and 6ft in height, has the appearance of a broch. It has been quarried into from the N side.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.

This feature, which lies close to Thing's Va (ND06NE 1) is the grass-covered remains of a round cairn 24.0m in diameter by 2.0m in maximum height. It has been dug into in the S side and the spoil now forms a mound just S of the cairn. A stone on the S edge may be a kerb stone.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 16 February 1965.

(ND 0818 6822) Cairn (NR)

OS 6"map, (1969)

No change to the previous field report.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 24 August 1981.

A cairn comprising a sub-circular grass-covered mound, 20m N-S by 12m by 1.5m high, with stones visible.

R J Mercer 1981.