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Baddhu

Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Baddhu

Classification Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 5426

Site Number NC60NW 12

NGR NC 600 070

NGR Description Centred NC 600 070

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NC60NW 12 centred 600 070.

(Centred NC 6007 0707) Tumuli (NR)

OS 6"map, Sutherlandshire, 1st ed., (1873)

A group of about a dozen mounds from 12ft to 18ft in diameter and about 3ft high.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

Small, grass-covered mounds which appear to be stone clearance heaps. Revised at 1/12500.

Visited by OS (W D J) 28 June 1963.

Centred at NC 600 070 are fifteen to twenty closely-grouped field clearance heaps; some 150.0m to the E further heaps occur about 20.0m apart spread over an area of one and a half hectares. No cultivation plots or hut circles are evident at either location.

Visited by OS (J B) 7 October 1980.

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