Breakachy Burn
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Breakachy Burn
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 12357
Site Number NH44NE 11
NGR NH 45609 45465
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmorack
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH44NE 11 4560 4546.
At NH 4560 4546, on a knoll and within a field system ( NH 44 NE10) are the remains of a cairn measuring about 9.0m in diameter and about 0.5m high. A kerb of eleven contiguous stones survives around the SW arc. The N and E arcs of the cairn are encroached upon by a depopulation steading. Divorced survey at 1/10,000 scale.
Visited by OS (R L) 17 March 1970
Field Visit (March 1979)
Tighnaleac 1 NH 456 454 NH44NE 11
This cairn measures about 9m in diameter and 0.5m in height and is bounded by a low kerb of bounded by a low kerb of boulders on the Sand W.
RCAHMS 1979, visited March 1979
