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Tain

Midden (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Tain

Classification Midden (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 14681

Site Number NH78SE 10

NGR NH 78 82

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Tain
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

NH78SE 10 78 82.

The point of a Bone Pin ; a thin, square plate of bone with a perforation at each corner; a small, discoid bead of shell; and part of the burr end of a roe-deer horn, at the broken part encircled by a groove worn by friction; were found in a kitchen-midden near Tain, and presented to the NMAS by the finder, J Graham Callander.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1931.

No further information found during field investigation.

Visited by OS (W D J) 18 May 1963.

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