Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649279

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC50NE 16 57330 05605

(NC 5733 0560) Chambered Cairns (NR) (includes NC50NE 17)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)

The Ord, North. Formerly thought to be a short, horned cairn (Henshall 1963), this well preserved chambered tomb, on excavation by Corcoran in 1967 proved to be circular though flattened on the SE side. It is 82ft in diameter, edged by dry-walling and upright stones. Outside this a level stone platform extends for 10ft to 20ft. The entrance is on the SE, through a low, narrow passage 14ft long. The chamber and ante-chamber are built of orthostats linked by dry-walling, with corbelled roofs 8ft to 10ft high which have partly collapsed. After the excavation the chamber was covered with polythene and the cairn material was replaced.

Visited by OS (W D J) 20 June 1963.

A S Henshall 1963; J Corcoran 1967; Current Archaeol 1972; A S Henshall 1972.

This well preserved chambered cairn is as described by Henshall and Corcoran.

Resurveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 21 July 1976.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (J B) 16 March 1979.

Account of Corcoran's excavation and analysis of the finds with C 14 dates. Mention is made of an intrusive Early Bronze Age cremation burial associated with a Food Vessel.

N M Sharples 1981.

Scheduled with NC50NE 13-14, 17, 19, 22, 38-9, 46, 54-6 and 81-2 as The Ord, chambered cairns, cairns, settlements and field systems.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 14 February 2002.