Links Of Dunnet
Settlement (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Links Of Dunnet
Classification Settlement (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 8817
Site Number ND26NW 15
NGR ND 227 695
NGR Description Centred ND 227 695
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Dunnet
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND26NW 15 centred 227 695
See also NS26NW 6.
(ND 227 695) A major, prehistoric, multi-phase settlement complex runs along the 5m contour, which probably represents the old shoreline, at Greenland Links. The structures are blanketed in sand and show only as slight earthworks, subcircular or circular, ranging from 5 to 7m in external diameter, elongated or cellular. Some are accompanied by barely detectable cairns and fragments of walling.
Much has obviously been destroyed by forestry but this site is closely comparable to the Invernaver (NC66SE 3) and, more precisely, the Cnoc Stanger (NC96NE 15) settlements.
(Mercer includes ND26NW 6 as the most westerly feature of this complex.)
R J Mercer 1981.
The area is hummocky, turf-covered sand-blow with virtually no exposure of stone. The alleged structres are low, amorphous hummocks, which may obscure buried foundations but which display insufficient evidence to justify the description of this site as a prehistoric, multi-phase settlement.
Visited by OS (N K B) 6 July 1982.
