Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652914

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND05NE 1 0540 5828.

(ND 0540 5824) Mound (NR)

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

Situated a little distance E of Sithean Dubh and N of Cnoc an Rath are the remains of a 'Pict's House', about 3ft high. Whether part of it has been taken away is not known.

Name Book 1873.

ND 0540 5828. A road quarry now occupies the site of the mound. Only a fragment of the E side of the mound remains, about 1m high; near its outer edge is a solitary upright stone, 0.3m high. The quarry excavations reveal the composition of the mound to have been of loose stones. There seems little doubt that this is the site of a cairn, which has measured about 16m in diameter.

Visited by OS (J L D) 10 April 1962.

(ND 0540 5828) Cairn (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map, (1963)

The fragmentary remains of a cairn as described by previous OS surveyor (J L D). The solitary upright stone in the east margin of the cairn is in fact a slab, 0.5m high 0.7m wide and 0.2m thick, and orientated NNE-SSW. It is somewhat loose and unlikely to be the remains of a passage/chamber or a cist.

Re-surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 15 September 1981.