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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654301
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654301
ND25SW 15 2454 5479
(ND 2454 5479) Uaigh Mhurcha Riabhaich (NAT)
OS 25" map, Caithness, (1872)
A possible Danish camp (a circular construction of clay about 60 links in diameter, possibly at one time trenched round). A wizard named Mhurcha Riabhach was shot and buried here about 1720.
Name Book 1871
The only trace of this feature is a very slight circular depression 13.3m in diameter, in an arable field.
Visited by OS (W D J) 29 April 1963
(ND 2454 5479) Uaigh Mhurcha Riabhaich (NAT) (site of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
No change to the previous field report.
Visited by OS (J M) 9 March 1982
Enclosure, 'Uaigh Mhircha Riahaich'. Represented by a slight depression but now covered in hay ricks.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
