Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664370

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH98NW 4 927 870.

(Group: NH 927 870) Tumuli (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)

A number of small irregular mounds, supposed to be the burial places of the victims of a battle that took place on Blar a' Chath. Some of the tumuli were destroyed in land reclamation.

Name Book 1872

No trace. 1st edition 25" shows more cairns than indicated here. Tumuli average 0.6m high by 2.0m in diameter (Information from OS revisor) Visited by OS (A A) 12 September 1972.

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (J B) 21 September 1977.