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Green Hill Of Clayton

Bog Burial (17th Century)

Site Name Green Hill Of Clayton

Classification Bog Burial (17th Century)

Canmore ID 9348

Site Number ND36SW 23

NGR ND 3396 6349

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

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Excavation (1975)

ND36SW 23 3396 6349.

A human skeleton in a woollen doublet dated to c.1600AD by the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), together with a length of 'simmons', was discovered in a peat mound near the Green Hill of Clayton (ND36SW 7).

DES 1975.

Field Visit (1983)

Site of burial located during survey of similar peat mounds in 1983

R J Mercer 1983; NMRS archive MS/384/1, No. 113

Reference (1995)

Listed in R C Turner's (1995) Gazetteer of Bog Bodies in the British Isles (70/1).

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