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Mosskesso, Closs

Scooped Settlement (iron Age)
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From the Historic Environment Scotland record 66944

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  • Bob Cowan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • R Douglas Dalgleish, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Walter Baxter, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Dorrell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • M J Richardson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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