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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654020
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654020
ND16SE 16 1679 6360.
(ND 1679 6360) Pict's House (NR) (Site of) Bronze Ornaments found here (NAT)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 1st ed., (1872)
While removing this ruin about 1830 there were found in the interior, a great quantity of ashes and burned stones, also a number of bronze buckles - five or six whole, and a few broken. The buckles were "in the shape similar to the shoe buckles worn by the Highlanders when dressed in Highland garb". They are now lost.
Name Book 1872.
No trace of any feature could be found at this site and no further information could be obtained locally.
Visited by OS (R D) 11 November 1965.
(ND 1679 6360) Bronze Buckles found AD 1830 (NAT)
OS 25" map, (1968)
No change to the previous field report.
Visited by OS (J M) 29 October 1981.
