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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 864872
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/864872
NC51SW 5 52301 13857
Lime Kilns (disused) [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, November 2009.
Location formerly entered as NC 5230 1385.
For (presumably associated) Shinness Quarry (to S, centred NC 52440 13738), see NC51SW 19.
(Location cited as NC 523 139). Shinness Limekilns, the Airde, built c. 1870 for the Duke of Sutherland. A range of three drystone-rubble, single-draw limekilns, with semicircular draw arches, one of which has collapsed.
J R Hume 1977.
