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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665214

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/665214

NJ16SE 14 181 615.

NJ 181 615. Two timber huts at Lochinver, noted from aerial reconnaissance.

Aberdeen Archaeological Surveys 1977.

'Traces of two partially-visible sub-circular enclosures with medium- narrow ditches'.

A F Harding and G E Lee 1987.

On lower slopes of a ridge the cropmarks of a timber house superimposed on the cropmarks of a circle of post pits. Cropmark of a ring ditch, penannular and discontinuous. Discovered while checking vertical aerial photograph held by Grampian Regional Council.

Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Grampian Regional Council.

R Feilden 1991c.

(Location cited as NJ 1810 6152: classified as Site of Regional Significance). Air photography (BKS 1976 and AAS 1977) has recorded the cropmarks of two possible timber huts on a gentle slope at an altitude of 30m OD. [Air photographic imagery listed].

NMRS, MS/712/35.

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