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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 661335
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/661335
NH56NE 6 5893 6655.
(NH 5893 6655) Carn Liath (NAT) Chambered Cairn (NR)
OS 6"map, (1970)
Carn Liath (Name Book 1875), an Orkney-Cromarty type round cairn, occupies a prominent position on top of a ridge. The site has formerly been planted with trees and enclosed within a circular wall which skirted the edge of the cairn by a few feet. It has been much robbed and disturbed, but still stands up to 5' or 6' high. It measures 74' x 80', but it has possibly been enlarged by field-gathered stones on the S side. The entrance has been from the ENE. Nine feet from the cairn edge, there is a low stone which is probably the N stone of a pair of portal stones at the entrance to the passage. A large slab, 11'9" to the W, also set transversely (though slightly askew) to the axis of the monument, appears to be the N member of another pair of portal stones. To the W, near the centre of the cairn, are remains of the chamber, the interior hollowed out but not to ground level. The chamber seems to have been unusually large, about 11' x 15', and the split slabs used for its construction are notable for their size.
A S Henshaw 1972
As described and planned.
Revised at 1/2500. (visited by OS (R D L) 3 May 1976)
Visited by OS (A A) 11 November 1970.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (J B) 8 November 1976
