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Dunnet Caravan Park

Mound (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Dunnet Caravan Park

Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 8885

Site Number ND27SW 11

NGR ND 2213 7037

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

ND27SW 11 2213 7037

(ND 2213 7037) Mound (NR)

OS 6" map, (1960)

The slight remains of a very large 'Pictish House'. (Not recorded by the RCAHMS)

Name Book 1873.

An amorphous, grass-covered mound about 25.0m in diameter and about 1.0m high. There is nothing about it to classify it as an antiquity.

Visited by OS (I S S), 9 March 1972.

Mound, diameter 20m, height 2m. (Wrongly numbered 657 on distribution map.)

R J Mercer 1980.

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (J M), 21 April 1982.

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