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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 653371
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/653371
ND06SW 47 028 602.
Claban.
OS 6"map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1877)
A longhouse standing to 1.2m in height, two ruined buildings, are incorporating a kiln. Adjoining are two low enclosures and traces of rig and furrow.
Visited by OS 29 September 1981.
A farmstead comprising three unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building, two enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet x). One unroofed building, two enclosures and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1987).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 3 October 1995.
