Archaeology Notes

Event ID 662166

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH66NE 10 6662 6952.

(NH 6662 6952) Carn Liath (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Dalmore Cairn was removed about 1810. It was about 60ft in diameter and 15ft high, and contained a cist, 31/2 x 21/2 x 2ft which survives and is surrounded by a stone wall (Maclean 1874). Maclean presumably refers to Carn Liath although the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB, 1874) says that only one large boulder remained, in the centre of the enclosure; and makes no mention of a cist, although human remains were found.

Name Book 1874; R Maclean 1886.

Carn Liath, the remains of a cairn reduced almost to ground level, planted with trees and surrounded with a modern wall 15.0m in diameter, is situated in a level pasture field at a height of about 50ft OD. It contains the remains of a short cist 1.5m x 0.8m x 0.2m high, covered by a large flattish boulder 1.8m x 1.0m and 0.5m thick.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 23 March 1966.