OS1/7/3/54

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PICT'S HOUSE (Remains of) [NW of Ham] Pictish House John Swanson, Esq. Ham
Robert Campbell, Schoolmaster Dunnet
Alexander Moodie Corsback
001 A few Chains north [west] of Ham and nearer [the] sea than the Grave [Mounds] is a Pictish House almost entire. The Entrance [which] is on the land side, is a narrow passage covered with [---] lintels of stone, leads into the centre apartment - a small cell 12 feet by 4. The outer cells have either fallen in [or] been destroyed. The centre apartment seems to have [no] connection with the outer cells unless it is with branch passages off the main one. One of the stones which [forms] part of the roof of the Centre apartment has been removed [and] a small hole by which I gained admittance to the [interior?] as the Entrance is full of stones and Earth. The masonary is rudely built of large stones with out [mortar?] The walls taper inward towards the top. Nothing of any importance was found in it - but Quern stones - [--] animal bones and sea shells - clearly pointing to its [being] at one time a place of habitation

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Ph [Parish] of Dunnet -- County of Caithness

[Signed] George Hobson C A. [Civilian Assistant]

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