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Field Visit
Date 19 August 1909
Event ID 1095807
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1095807
41. Cairns, Sciberscross. Some 350 yards ESE. of the farmhouse, on a slight eminence in the middle of a meadow, are the remains of a cairn. The upper part, of it has been removed, and a cist exposed, of which the covering slab, ends, and one side remain. It lies WSW. and ENE. The covering slab measures 4' 4" X 2' 9", and the length of the interior is 3' 7". The diameter of the cairn is about 33', and its present height about 4'. The outline of the cairn has been marked with large contiguous boulders of from 1 ½ to 2' in length.
Some 30' E. is another cairn which has been excavated and the cist displaced. It is 30' 9" in diameter and is about 4’ high. Around the base is a setting of large, but not contiguous, boulders.
Some 20' N. of the first cairn is a mound about 5’ high and 19' in diameter, from the slope of which some large stones protrude. It is probably another cairn.
Some 40 yards W. of the same cairn is a natural mound, with a cairn on the top of it, measuring 27' in diameter, and having an · outline of contiguous boulders. It appears to have been excavated, but no cist is visible. It is overgrown with grass.
OS 6-inch map, Sutherland, xcvii. (unnoted).
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 19th August 1909.
