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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8886
- Council Highland
- Parish Dunnet
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
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.
