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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 648552
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/648552
NC22SE 1 2610 2176.
Cairn, Traligill Burn, Inchnadamph: On the right bank of the Traligill Burn, about a mile E by N from Inchnadamph Hotel, on the summit of a slightly rocky ridge, is a cairn. It is considerably dilapidated and its original outline can only be conjectured, but it appears to have been circular, with a diameter of about 50'. It is still 6' to 7' in height. Several large flat stones are exposed lying unevenly about the top, but there is no sign of a chamber or cist having been opened.
RCAHMS 1911.
The cairn, as described above, is at NC 2610 2176. It is a large heap of stones c. 20.0m in diameter and 2.3m high.
Visited by OS (E G C) 24 April 1961.
(NC 2610 2176) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1963)
On the edge of the cairn in the SSE are two blocks 0.8m apart, just protruding through the debris; 3.5m from them outwards the centre of the cairn is a massive upright boulder 1.4m long x 1.5m thick. It is probable that these stones represent part of a passage leading to an otherwise concealed chamber.
Visited by OS (J M) 15 August 1963.
A chambered cairn as described.
Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 2 September 1980.
