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Eilean Hoan, Burial Ground

Burial Ground (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Eilean Hoan, Burial Ground

Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 4949

Site Number NC46NW 2

NGR NC 4420 6721

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Durness
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC46NW 2 4420 6721.

(NC 4420 6721) Grave Yard (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map, (1961)

There is the site of a burial ground on Eilean Hoan. It has been out of use for the last fifty years.

Name Book 1875.

There are no indications of a graveyard or any other feature visible in formerly cultivated groun at the site indicated on the OS map. However, 100m E of the spot is a piece of rising ground which in places seems to have been artificially scarped and this may have been the site of the graveyard. There is no local tradition of such a feature on the island. Visited by OS (J M) 24 April 1980. (Name Book 1875.)

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