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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 664224
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/664224
NH85SE 13 centred 8544 5323.
Centred at NH 8544 5323 in cleared woodland on the crest of a low glacial ridge are three turf-covered cairns. They occur in a straight line running NW-SW and about five metres apart.
The most NW cairn measures about 6.5m NW-SE by about 6.0m transversely and is about 0.5m maximum height.
The central cairn is about 7.0m in diameter and about 0.5m maximum height. There are traces of a surrounding ditch about 1.0m wide in the N and E arcs.
The third cairn is only about 3.0m in diameter and about 0.3m maximum height. There are traces of a ditch about 0.5m wide around the N and E arcs.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 28 January 1971.
Scheduled as 'Ackron, three cairns 325m NE of, Kinchyle... an alignment of three cairns of probable Bronze-Age date... 25m above sea level, close to the River Nairn... [and] in regenerating woodland...'
[Specific dimensions cited].
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 15 October 2007.
