Field Visit
Date May 1965
Event ID 1112254
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1112254
Cairn (possible), Ranachan Hill.
On the summit of Ranachan Hill (215 m O.D.) there is a roughly circular flat-topped mound, approximately 24.5 m in diameter and 3.4 m in height, which is overlain by the SE. angle of the innermost stone wall of Ranachan Hillfort; it is surmounted by a modern cairn. At first sight the mound might be taken for a Bronze Age burial cairn, for its flanks are so thickly strewn with boulders as to suggest that the entire feature is artificial. On the NE. quadrant, however, where the surface is free of boulders, the living rock can be seen protruding through the heather in several places. In the absence of excavation, therefore, it is not possible to determine whether the mound is a prehistoric monument.
RCAHMS 1971, visited May 1965
689250 ccli (unnoted)
