MHG32086 - Grouse butt - Allt Ghimmer

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GROUSE BUTT (Post Medieval - 1560 AD to 1900 AD)

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Grouse Butt.
This well-preserved, U-shaped grouse butt measures 2.5m across with 3m long sidewalls and an entrance opening to 131 degrees. The peat walls are 1m high at the interior leading edge (0.6m high externally) and are 0.6m thick, and the butt is set on the W side of a small burn in the upper reaches of Allt Ghimmer in a broad open valley. <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.64, Feature 238.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 8676 1437 (10m by 10m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC81SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CLYNE

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

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