Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656143

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF86SW 11 8386 6290

(NF 8384 6290) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

This cairn, at Loch Glen na Feannag at the foot of Craonaval, has been much disturbed and robbed, and has remains of shielings on the NW side. It varies in diameter from c. 44 to 52ft: the entrance passage runs from just S of E, and five orthostats of a very large oval chamber can be seen lying to the west of the passage.

Beveridge (E Beveridge 1911) records pottery, charred bones and kitchen midden refuse. Finds, including potsherds of the IA or later, are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

E Beveridge 1911; Information from MS of A S Henshall's 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland', Vol. 2, 49-50, plan

This chambered cairn is as described by Henshall. There are at least five shieling-type structures on and around the cairn.

Surveyed at 1/10,560.

Visited by OS (W D J), 3 June 1965

An unroofed shieling-hut is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, North Uist etc. 1882, sheet xl) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 30 April 1997.