Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655645

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF60SE 5 67190 01910.

(NF 6718 0190) Dun Bharpa (NR)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Dun Bharpa is a relatively little disturbed chambered cairn about 17ft high and 110ft in diameter. There is a peristalith of unevenly spaced, large, split stones of 80 to 85ft in diameter. The chamber lies to the east of the centre of the cairn with the entrance on the east side.

A smaller cairn, a little to the south-east, is noted by MacRitchie (? NF60SE 12).

A S Henshall 1963, visited 17 April 1962; RCAHMS 1928, visited 5 June 1915; D MacRitchie 1895.

As described above. The large relatively flat top of the cairn is honeycombed with at least sixteen circular and four oval and rectangular hollows varying in size from 1.5m in diameter to 3.6m by 1.5m, probably shielings.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (W D J) 26 May 1965.