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Cnoc An Dalach

Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Cnoc An Dalach

Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 12715

Site Number NH54SE 19

NGR NH 55555 43938

NGR Description 

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Kirkhill
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NH54SE 19 5555 4394.

NH 555 439. Cairn, Cnoc an Dalach: This cairn stands immediately W of Easter Moniack farmsteading. It measures 19 m in diameter and 1.5 m in height.

H Barron 1968; RCAHMS 1979, visited 1979.

At NH 5555 4394, on a slight rise ploughed round on three sides, is a turf-covered cairn supporting a number of mature conifers. It measures an estimated 17.5 m across NW-SE and is 1.5 m high; the transverse measurement is no longer certain as the cairn has been reduced and spread into the uncultivated ground on its NE margin.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (J M) 5 Feburary 1981.

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Field Visit (July 1979)

Cnoc an Dalach, Easter Moniack NH 555 439 NH54SE

This cairn stands immediately W of Easter Moniack farmsteading. It measures 19m in diameter and 1.5m in height.

RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1979

(Barron 1968, 216)

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