Monument record MHG9634 - Burnt Mound, Dalhalvaig

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 8971 5460 (16m by 16m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC85SE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish FARR

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NC85SE 14 8972 5460.

At NC 8972 5460, on a natural shelf, is a roughly circular, turf-covered burnt mound, 10.5m in diameter and 0.6m high, which contains a central hollow 2.5m across and 0.4m deep. The content of earth and small friable stones is exposed in rabbit scrapes, as well as fragments of charcoal. There are old watercourses on each side of mound and one, possibly two hut circles occur some 80.0m to the south. (See NC85SE 5).
Surveyed at 1/10,000. Visited by OS (N K B) 2 June 1977,

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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