Lentran
Cairn(S) (Period Unknown)(Possible)
Site Name Lentran
Classification Cairn(S) (Period Unknown)(Possible)
Canmore ID 12729
Site Number NH54SE 6
NGR NH 57 44
NGR Description NH c.57 44
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kirkhill
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH54SE 6 57 44.
There is a group of cairns, varying from 6 to 18 feet in diameter, situated on the hill lately cleared of wood, about half a mile to the south of Lentran House (NH 57 45) and close to the Alt-na-Ceardaich stream.
T Wallace 1886.
No trace of these cairns could be found.
Visited by OS (R D) 21 December 1964.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (R L) 13 April 1970.
Field Visit (15 August 1943)
Cairns, Lentran.
No trace could be found, nor any local information obtained, regarding the cairns half a mile S of Lentran House noted previously (Wallace 1886, 348). Their probable location is now either arable or thickly wooded.
Visited by RCAHMS (AG) 15 August 1943.
OS ref: xi (unnoted)
Note (1979)
Lentran NH c.57 44 NH54SE 6
In 1886 Wallace recorded a group of cairns 'about half a mile to the south of Lentran House'; they cannot now be found.
RCAHMS 1979
(Wallace 1886, 348)
