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Hunspow

Building(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Hunspow

Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 118852

Site Number ND27SW 60

NGR ND 2182 7263

NGR Description ND 2182 7263 and ND 2179 7254

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Dunnet
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND27SW 60 2182 7263 and 2179 7254

ND 2182 7263. A long-house (building), 26m E-W by 4m by 2m high, divided internally.

R J Mercer 1981

Two roofed buildings are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, (Caithness, 1876), sheet 1 c.250m NW of St John's Loch in an area annotated as Hunspow. They are now shown as roofless buildings on the latest edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976), to the E of the road which leads from Brough to Dunnet.

Information from RCAHMS (DE) June 1997

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