MHG31875 - Grouse butt - Cnoc a' Ghrianain

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GROUSE BUTT (Undated)

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Grouse Butt.
Water-filled, possible grouse butt, cut into the hillside at its upper edge, but with no leading spoil lip evident. It has been cut straight into the hillside, and has a possible entrance opening to 2800. This is the north-westernmost in a row of 9 disused grouse butts, trending SE from here in a line over the heather-covered N spur of Cnoc a’Ghrianain. <1>

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<1> SHG21948 Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Lindsay N. 2003. Report on Walk-Over Archaeological Survey: Proposed Windfarm Access Route, Gordonbush, Sutherland. Unaffiliated. 03/03/2003. Paper (Copy). p.26, Feature 088.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 8341 1215 (10m by 10m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC81SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CLYNE

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Walkover Survey - Proposed Windfarm Access Route, Gordonbush (EHG998)

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