'Brown Muir'
Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name 'Brown Muir'
Classification Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Old Shields
Canmore ID 16908
Site Number NJ35NW 6
NGR NJ 30 58
NGR Description NJ c. 30 58
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Moray
- Parish Speymouth
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ35NW 6 c. 30 58
Extends onto map sheet NJ25NE.
Innumerable flints occur to the south-west of the Fochabers road on the moorland which stretches past Orbliston Juntion (NJ 304 582: known as Fochabers Station in Morrison's time) through the Brown Muir (NJ Name not known) to a little north of Old Shields (NJ 283 577)
J Morrison 1873.
The name Brown Muir is not known locally. The area indicated by Morrison is now either cultivated or afforested and there is no local knowledge of flints found.
Visited by OS (A A) 7 May 1971.
