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Skye, Ardmore Point
Cairn (Period Unknown)(Possible)
Site Name Skye, Ardmore Point
Classification Cairn (Period Unknown)(Possible)
Canmore ID 10915
Site Number NG25NW 2
NGR NG 21754 59922
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10915
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (12 May 1961)
NG25NW 2 2175 5992
NG 2175 5992. Upon a rocky knoll at the end of Ardmore Point, just over 100ft OD, there is the remains of a turf-covered cairn.
It measures 9.3m in diameter, 0.5m in height and is contained within a kerb of small stones. In the centre is a small pile of stones covering an Admiralty trig station and to the N are two earth-fast boulders.
The size of this cairn and the presence of a kerb suggest that it is an antiquity and not the site of an early trigonometrical station.
Visited by OS (AC) 12 May 1961.
Field Visit (19 July 1990)
NG25NW 2 2175 5992
What has previously been described as a cairn is situated on the highest point towards near the tip of Ardmore Point. A hydrographic triangulation station (erected by HMS Cook in 1952) on a concrete pillar has been set into the ground; a number of stones and an earthen mound around the triangulation point may have given the impression of a cairn but probing on the date of visit suggested a minimal stone content, and this was confirmed in the rabbit burrows.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 19 July 1990.
