Monument record MHG39416 - Enclosure, Claperon

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Grid reference Centred NC 9725 6295 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC96SE
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish REAY
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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Renumbered from NC96NE0014B
JHooper, 5/10/2002
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NC96SE 22 9725 6295.
Adjacent to W side of the peat road is a large stone-walled enclosure, now reduced to a course of boulders and measuring some 78m N-S by 56m transversely. A stream cuts through it E-W near its S end. Near E side of the enclosure and situated within it is a 15m square enclosure with rounded corners. It is formed by an earth and stone bank spread to 2.2m wide and 0.3m high. There is a mutilation 3m wide in W side where the entrance was probably located. Opposite this, on the E side of the road, are traces of another large enclosure which seems to have abutted onto the one just described. Visited by OS (J L D) 24 May 1960.

(NC 9725 6295) Enclosures (NR) OS 6"map, (1963)

A hut circle within a field enclosure. The hut, turf-covered and overgrown with bracken, measures 10.5 by 9.5m within a wall spread to 2m by 0.3m high; entrance is in W on line of main axis.
The enclosures, as described by previous OS surveyor, are almost certainly contemporary with the nearby farmstead to the NE, abandoned in the 18th - 19th century.
Revised at 1:10560. Visited by OS (J M) 6 August 1981.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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