Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664009

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH82NW 4 8090 2714.

(NH 8090 2714) Raigmore Graveyard (Disused) (NAT)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Raigmore, from the derivation of the name, is the site of a prehisitoric burial ground (ISSFC 1898).

The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB), however, states that it is a disused burial ground.

Name Book 1870; Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 1898.

A circular enclosure consisting of turf-covered wall-footings 12.0m in diameter and 0.3m in height, situated on the top of a small wooded knoll, around the base of which are traces of walling and ruined buildings. There seems no archaeological evidence to suggest that this was a prehistoric burial ground; and no local information could be obtained to confirm it is a disused burial ground.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 31 October 1966.