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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 661148
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/661148
NH55SE 5 5772 5191.
(NH 5772 5191) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
This cairn measures 47' E-W by 34' N-S and is 13' high.
Excavations by Woodham in 1960 and 1961 revealed not only that the cairn had been entered from the top, and subsequently filled in with clay, but that it contains a massive cist, 8' x 2', lacking end slabs though covered by three large slabs; on the floor were found a few pieces of cremated bone. The only other find was a saddle quern used as a building stone.
A J Beaton 1882; A A Woodham 1956, 1960, 1961.
The cairn is about 13.0m in diameter and 2.5m high. It is virtually cut into two halves by Woodham's excavation trench running approximately E-W. Boulders and clay have rolled into the trench and there is no sign of the alleged cist.
Published survey (25") revised.
Visited by OS (I S S) 29 March 1973.
No change.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 3 March 1989.
