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Links Of Dunnet

Mound (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Links Of Dunnet

Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 8886

Site Number ND27SW 12

NGR ND 2243 7000

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 12 2243 7000

(ND 2243 7000) Mound (NR)

OS 6" map, (1960)

A 'Pictish house or brough' situated on a small hillock. It has never been opened, but seems to have fallen in. (Not recorded by the RCAHMS.)

Name Book 1873.

A sub-circular hollow about 13.0m in diameter in grass- covered sand and now afforested. There is no trace of stonework and there is nothing to suggest that it is artificial.

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

Mound. Diameter 20m, height 1.5m. (Wrongly positioned 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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