Monument record MHG50358 - Memorial To Peach And Horne, Geologists

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Grid reference Centred NC 2491 2221 (20m by 20m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC22SW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish ASSYNT
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Visited by the Assynt's Hidden Lives project in November 2009. Quarried stone mortared blocks monument in very good condition. A bronze inscription plaque on the south elevation reads: "To Ben N Peach and John Horne who played the foremost part in unravelling the geological structures of the north west Highlands 1883-1897. An International tribute erected 1930". <2>

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  • --- Image/Photograph(s): Highland Council Archaeology Unit. HCAU Slide Collection Sheet 17. Colour slide. . Digital (scanned). 340.
  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 286575.
  • <2> Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Cavers, G & Hudson, G. 05/2010. Assynt's Hidden Lives: An archaeological survey of the the parish. AOC Archaeology Group and Historic Assynt. 01/08/2010. Digital. 136, p.130.

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Sep 6 2010 12:06PM

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