Beaufort Cottages
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Beaufort Cottages
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Beaufort Castle Policies
Canmore ID 12388
Site Number NH44SE 16
NGR NH 4965 4188
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12388
- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltarlity And Convinth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
At NH 4964 4188, within a walled enclosure, formerly a copse, at the W margin of a field, is a cairn, 12.0 m in diameter and 1.6 m high. It bears the stumps of trees, and is riddled with rabbit burrows in which is exposed a content of earth and stones.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B), 5 March 1981.
Field Visit (March 1979)
Beaufort Cottages NH 496 418 NH 44 SE
What may be a prehistoric burial-mound, measuring a maximum of 13m in diameter and 1.8m in height, occupies a slight knoll 200m S of Beaufort Cottages. Part of a kerb is visible about 2.5m inside the NE edge of the mound.
RCAHMS 1979, visited March 1979
