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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

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Administrative Areas

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

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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

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