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Cromlechs

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

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Archaeological notes on Loch Sgadavagh Isle and accompanying sketch, c1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/69
Scope and Contents Archaeological notes on Loch Sgadavagh Isle [Loch Sgadabhagh, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] including a sketch plan of the ruins there with their dimensions, noting that there is a place for the boat at the door an destimating the age [of ruins] to be two or three hundred years old. Carmichael states that the loch is named after the island of Scadabhagh which is 'low, green & flat' and notes that thick heather or eilteach grows there. He adds that there is a pillar about five feet high at...
Dates: c1869