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Raigmore Neolithic house and Bronze Age cairn

03 January 2019

When the A9 was being upgraded in the 1970s, a cairn was excavated, and then moved to behind Raigmore Community Centre. The first phase of the site is represented by some pits with grooved ware potter...
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Ardersier Toll House

02 March 2014

At the entrance to Ardersier village, travelling from Inverness towards Fort George, the first building within the village limits was built as a tollhouse for the parliamentary road built in the early...
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Inverness Poorhouse

01 January 2014

This building was built as a poorhouse at Hilton, Inverness between 1859 and 1861 at a cost of c. £6,000. It was used to rehouse ‘inmates’ from the overcrowded Dunbar’s Hospita...
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