Archaeology Notes

Event ID 662768

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH68NE 5 6915 8790

(NH 6915 8790) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907)

An ancient cairn situated on a wooded knoll.

OS Name Book 1874.

A large mound of bare stones situated on top of a natural knoll, now devoid of trees, over-looking the Dornoch Firth. It measures 18.5m E-W by 17.8m N-S and its height varies from 1.5m in the north side to 2.0m in the east side. The top is flattish and there is evidence of excavation but no trace of a cist or chamber was seen and no evidence of a kerb was noted round the perimeter.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (W D J), 15 May 1963.