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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 654128

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654128

ND14NW 31 121 458.

Two shielings, of which one is tripartite, 11.0 by 3.0m and up to 0.8m high, the other is bipartite, 6.5 by 2.5m and 0.5m high.

Visited by OS 16 March 1982

An unroofed shieling-hut is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxvii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 December 1995

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