Monument record MHG44622 - Enclosure, Moss of Whilk

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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 2852 4092 (14m by 14m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet ND24SE
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish LATHERON
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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Full Description

Scheduled Ancient Monument Management Plan, 1st April 2003 to 31st March 2008. HS, 11/03/03. See assoc. docs. File.
J Aitken : 25/03/03
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ND24SE 8 2852 4093. Mound (NR). OS 6" map, (1959)

A low grassy hillock, 63' in diameter, with large quarried stones, showing no trace of arrangement, scattered over its surface. The mound does not seem to be high enough to cover a broch and stones are unlikely to have been removed from such an inaccessible spot. The surface is very uneven, and does not suggest a cairn.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.

A turf-covered stony mound c21m diameter, and 1.5m max height, of uncertain classification. Some 20m to NE is a sub-oval enclosure measuring 17m x 13m within a peat-covered stone wall of indeterminate width. A few displaced blocks are exposed in SW arc. This site bears some resemblance to the 'Green Hill of Clayton' (ND36SW 7).
Surveyed at 1:10000 Visited by OS (A A) 19 April 1972.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1911. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness. . 77-8, No. 280.

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Record last edited

Nov 1 2011 11:50AM

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