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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 650851
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/650851
NC75NW 4 7164 5890.
(NC 7160 5900) Tumuli (NR) (Eight shown)
OS 6"map, Sutherland, 1st ed., (1873)
Small cairns in which are interred human remains.
Name Book 1873.
Along the slopes of the shelving hillside are small tumuli, about 10 feet in diameter and 5 feet high, composed of earth and stones, which yield an unctuous substance at the centre when excavated showing that the slope was used as a prehistoric cemetery.
A Mackay 1914
A minor field system covering an area some 250m N-S by 100m E-W and consisting of stone clearance heaps and lynchets with fields measuring between 30m by 15m and 20m by 10m.
Visited by OS (A A) 20 July 1971.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (J B) 20 July 1977.
