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Ach Hacon

Encampment (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Ach Hacon

Classification Encampment (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 7914

Site Number ND06SE 22

NGR ND 057 640

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Halkirk
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND06SE 22 057 640.

(Name: ND 057 640) Ach Hacon (NAT)

OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)

Ach Hacon is traditionally the site of an encampment of a 12th century Earl Hacon.

Name Book 1872; T Torfaeus 1866.

No further information

Visited by OS (N K B) 18 September 1981.

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