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Lothbeg, Earl's Cut

Water Channel (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Lothbeg, Earl's Cut

Classification Water Channel (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 6935

Site Number NC90NE 2

NGR NC 9523 0993

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NC90NE 2 9523 0993

(NC 9523 0993) Earl's Cut (NAT)

OS 6" map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1909)

About 1605 the old course of the water of Loth was stayed and diverted by Earl John, Duke of Sutherland, and made to run in a direct straight passage from the hill to sea, cut through a rock 20ft high.

Statistical Account (OSA) 1798; R Gordon 1813.

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