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Strath, Gairloch
Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Inhumation (Pictish), Long Cist (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Strath, Gairloch
Classification Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Inhumation (Pictish), Long Cist (Pictish), Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Canmore ID 11758
Site Number NG77NE 1
NGR NG 7997 7721
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11758
- Council Highland
- Parish Gairloch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG77NE 1 7997 7721 to 8012 7703
An unpaved oriented long cist, containing a female skeleton, was found in October 1949, on low sandy ground 25 yards west of Achadh a Chairn Burn and 230 yards SE of Gairloch Manse (NG 7991 7741) during housing development.
A symbol stone and human bones are known to have been found on this site before 1871.
Three burials, possibly associated with these, were found 200 yards to the SE, when the FP Church was being built.
R B K Stevenson 1954; Information from W G Bannerman, Council Road Surveyor.
The long cist lay in the 'Field of the Cairn' at NG 7997 7721 (b) at a spot now marked by the front doorstep of No.2, The Faolin, Gairloch.
The other three burials were found on the site of the Free Presbyterian Church at NG 8012 7703 (Mr Bannerman, District Surveyor, Ipirloch). Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 30 March 1965.
A long-cist burial was excavated in 1949 at the head of Strath Bay, an inlet of Loch Gairloch, and about 25m W of Abhainn Achadh Chairn. Human remains and a symbol-stone (for which see NG87NW 9) had been found in the same area about 1880, and other burials have been found about 190m to the SE (1).
Footnotes:
(1) R B K Stevenson 1954, 110.
I Fisher 2001.
