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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAIRNS | 006 | About four chains east of it are three cairns of stones about five feet in height each. They have every appearance of sepulchural cairns but no information can be got about them | ||
| PICT'S HOUSE (Remains of) | Supposed Pictish House (remains of) | Robert Campbell, Schoolmaster Dunnet William Clair, Farmer Dunnet |
006 | A Pictish house or Brugh situated on a small hillock It has never been opened but seems to have fallen in - |
| PICTS' HOUSES (Remains of) | Supposed Pictish Houses (remains of) | Robert Campbell, Schoolmaster Dunnet William Clair, Farmer Dunnet |
006 | About 20 chains southward of the above are three Pictish Cairns - or at least they are supposed either to be that or Grave Mounds - they are of the same ancient type as the mounds which are so common in the county and where the surface is the least broken they shey rude masonry No 1 is flat on the top and seems to have fallen in - No 2 is Entire and is about 6 or 8 feet in height - but as there has been a great acumulation of sand now overgrown with bent - on the surrounding land - its height is comparitavly small to what it has been No 3 seems to have fallen in and the greater part been removed - |
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[Page] 94Ph [Parish] of Dunnet -- County of Caithness
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