John O' Groats House Hotel
Lithic Implement(S) (Flint)
Site Name John O' Groats House Hotel
Classification Lithic Implement(S) (Flint)
Canmore ID 9405
Site Number ND37SE 9
NGR ND 3796 7328
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9405
- Council Highland
- Parish Canisbay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND37SE 9 3796 7328.
ND 3796 7328 (information from R Stephan-Murray to OS, 11 September 1981). Numerous brown and white beach flint flakes, cores, blades and scrapers, of a mesolithic - neolithic aspect, were found on the ploughed surface of the Hotel Field. A few of the implements show secondary retouching.
R Stephan-Murray 1981; Information contained in letter from R Stephan-Murray to OS, 28 August 1981.
The area is now largely under grass with a corner of a new car park forming part of the site. No surface flints are exposed and the present whereabouts of the flints are unknown.
Visited by OS (J B) 7 May 1982.
Some of the finds are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
Information from R Stephan-Murray to OS, 22 March 1984.
