Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650220

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC70NW 15 703 052.

(Area NC 703 052) Tumuli (NR)

OS 6"map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907)

On the W slope of Ardaigh Chonachair, about 3/4 mile NE of Blarich, and along the ridge, are numerous small mounds a few of which have been excavated, but no cists are exposed.

About a mile N of Tressady Lodge is a mound or cairn, overgrown with vegetation, measuring 32ft in diameter and about 5 1/2ft high. A number of small mounds lie around it.

RCAHMS 1911.

These stony mounds, including the large mound described by the RCAHMS, would appear to be field clearance heaps, but although the area is comparatively clear and is suitable for cultivation, there is no definite evidence for this, so the mounds could either be cairns or clearance heaps. Similar scattered groups of mounds occur on the low hills to the S and W.

Visited by OS (N K B) 24 February 1966.

(NC 703 052) Cairns (NR) (six shown)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)

The mounds are of a type usually associated with hut circles. There are outlying similar mounds, particularly numerous to the WNW.

Visited by OS (J M) 20 May 1981.