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Dremergid
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Dremergid
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5874
Site Number NC70NW 36
NGR NC 7394 0642
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5874
- Council Highland
- Parish Rogart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Field Visit (9 April 1981)
At NC 7394 0642, on the margin of damp ground and adjacent to hut circles and field system (NC70NW 18) is a U-shaped burnt mound 9.5m across the open end by 6.5m transversely and 1.0m high. Erosion of the peat-cover reveals friable and reddened fragments of stone.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 9 April 1981.
Field Visit (7 March 1995)
NC70NW 36 7394 0642.
This C-shaped burnt mound lies at the edge of a field-system (NC 70NW 18), and measures 11m from ESE to WNW by 6.8m transversely and 1m in height, opening out on the SSE. The W side merges with the drier ground and may have been ploughed across. Rabbit burrows reveal black soil, cracked stone and fragments of charcoal.
(ROG95 1)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 7 March 1995
