Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Archaeology Notes
Event ID 660832
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660832
NH55NE 2 5766 5679.
(NH 5766 5679) Stone Circle (NR) Remains of.
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
Alcaig Manse (A S Henshall 1963). This cairn, of uncertain type, is overgrown and considerably robbed. It is about 55 ft. diam. with a now rather intermittent peristalith of heavy boulders of which one on the SE segment has about 15 cups, one of these being 7 ins across and 2 ins deep.
A massive stone, 8 ft. within the W. edge of the cairn, is 2 ft. above the cairn material and, in an excavated hollow some 8 ft to the south east of it, another stone is exposed to a depth of 2 feet. Towards the E side of the cairn, is a large, displaced slab. The presence of these stones suggests the existence of a chamber.
Forty feet outside the peristalith may be a comparatively modern bank.
V G Childe 1944; A A Woodham 1956
This cairn is as described above. (Chambered Cairn (NR)
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 21 January 1965.
No change
Visited by RCAHMS (J R S) March 1989.
