Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Upcoming Maintenance
Please be advised that this website will undergo scheduled maintenance on the following dates:
Thursday, 9 January: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Thursday, 23 January: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Thursday, 30 January: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
During these times, some functionality such as image purchasing may be temporarily unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Rhuvoult
Findspot, Bog Butter
Site Name Rhuvoult
Classification Findspot, Bog Butter
Alternative Name(s) Rhiconich
Canmore ID 71066
Site Number NC25SW 6
NGR NC 245 547
NGR Description NC c. 245 547
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71066
- Council Highland
- Parish Eddrachillis
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC25SW 6 c. 245 547.
'Cylindrical mass of bog butter, measuring 8 inches in diameter and 7 inches in height, found from 8 to 9 feet below the surface in a peat-bog at Rhuvoult, Rhiconich, Sutherland, by William McIntosh, crofter there. It seems to have been packed in an intestinal membrane, now brown in colour. Fragments of wood, possibly part of the container, were noticed but not picked up.' Donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
PSAS 1933.
Mc McIntosh deceased. According to local information the bog butter was found when cutting peats in the area centred NC 245 547.
Visited by OS (AA) 20 July 1971.
(Location cited as NC 24 54). NMS ME 689. Cylindrical mass partly wrapped in intestinal membrane; possibly also highly decayed wooden container.
NMRS, MS/996/1.
