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Hope Bridge

Site (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Hope Bridge

Classification Site (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 4969

Site Number NC46SE 7

NGR NC 4753 6010

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Durness
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC46SE 7 4753 6010

See also NC46SE 6.

NC 4749 6011. The remains of a possible cairn, 13.5m in diameter.

Information contained in letter from T C Welsh to OS , 23 July 1973.

A stony ring-bank with two large stones set on the perimeter.

T C Welsh 1973.

for further information see MS/737/12

At NC 4753 6010, occupying the level summit of a prominent knoll, are the poorly-preserved remains of a stony bank incorporating three or four earthfast boulders, which forms a circle, 9.5m internal diameter. The bank is vague and incomplete, and where best preserved is about 2.0m wide and 0.4m high. The largest of the boulders, 0.9m high, occurs in the SE arc adjacent to a lowering in the height of the bank, and may possibly delineate an entrance. Otherwise there is no evidence of a wall face. The interior is relatively free of stones and level.

This enclosure cannot be classified with certainty, due to the denuded nature of the remains, though its appearance suggests some antiquity. The most likely classifications are (i) a denuded hut circle, (ii) an enclosed cremation cemetery, or (iii) a comprehensively robbed cairn.

(See NC46SE 6 for possible association.)

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 29 April 1980.

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