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'Place Of Justice', Flowerdale House
Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name 'Place Of Justice', Flowerdale House
Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Flowerdale House Policies
Canmore ID 11960
Site Number NG87NW 7
NGR NG 8145 7520
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11960
- Council Highland
- Parish Gairloch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG87NW 7 8145 7520
(NG 8145 7520) The circular island in the paddock below Flowerdale House, which as until recent times the place where justice was administered in Gairloch, is probably Druidical. It is scarcely an island, the moat or ditch which formerly insulated it being now filled up, or nearly so. It formed no part of the Tigh Dige (NG87NW 8).
J H Dixon 1886.
Situated in marshy ground in a paddock 20.0m N. of a burn and 150.0m S of Flowerdale House, is an artificial flat-topped island, planted with trees, and still known locally as a place of justice. It measures 9.0m in diameter, by 0.4m in height, and is surrounded by a 4.0m wide ditch with a very slight bank on the S side to contain the water. No causeway across the ditch is visible.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 6 April 1965.
