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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 664444
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/664444
NH94NW 1 9164 4978.
(NH 9164 4978) Shian Hillock (NR) (Tumulus) (NR) Stone Coffins and Human Bones found AD. 1845
OS 6"map, Nairnshire, 2nd ed., (1906)
Situated at the top of the east bank of Muckle Burn is Shion Hillock, a grass-covered round cairn of earth and stone, measuring 33.0m in diameter by 4.0m high. On the south periphery about twelve kerb-stones can be seen.
On the top is a shallow excavation trench, presumably that in which Dr Greig of Nairn found stone coffins (? cists) and a quantity of human bones (Name Book 1869). No trace of the cists can now be seen and the where-abouts of the bones is unknown.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 15 November 1965.
