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Field Visit

Date May 1979

Event ID 1131620

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1131620

Callachy Hill NH 738 605 NH76SW 5

This cairn, about 13.8m in diameter and 2.5m in height, stands in dense forest 350m NE of Flowerburn House. Excavations in 1883, and again in 1906-7, revealed what were probably three cremation burials, one in a central cist and another under an inverted 'urn'.

RCAHMS 1979, visited May 1979

Mackenzie 1908, 70-3; Woodham 1956, 74, no. 16

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