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Upper Dounreay
Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Upper Dounreay
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 7896
Site Number ND06NW 7
NGR ND 0012 6549
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7896
- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND06NW 7 0012 6549.
(ND 0012 6549) Pict's House (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1876)
This Pictish house was removed in 1868, and with the exception of some broken querns, calcined bones (probably animal) and burnt wood, nothing of any importance was found in it. It resembles the rest of the chambered cairns of Caithness.
Name Book 1873.
Nothing was seen in this arable field.
Visited by OS (W D J) 7 June 1960.
(ND 0012 6459) Mound (NR) (site of)
OS 25"map, (1966)
No change to the previous field report.
(Erroneously sited on OS 6"map 1969 at ND 0009 6549.)
Visited by OS (J B) 7 August 1981.
