Balvaird
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Balvaird
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 12842
Site Number NH55SW 10
NGR NH 53943 51930
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Logie Wester
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH55SW 10 5394 5193.
(NH 53945193) Stone Circle (OE) (Remains of)
OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
A stone circle of which 18 stones at present are to be seen in various positions.
Name Book 1876.
The cairn; Orkney-Cromarty, polygonal; has been so robbed that its limits cannot be defined. Its maximum height is 3ft.
A S Henshall 1963; A A Woodham 1956
This mutilated cairn is 1.0m high, with 10 stones, maximum height 1.0m, forming a burial chamber with 2 compartments, visible in the top. A third compartment on the east edge is formed by much smaller stones. Re-surveyed at 1/2500. Photo.
Visited by OS (N K B) 22 January 1965
No change.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) March 1989.
Field Visit (June 1979)
Balvaird (ROS 7) NH 539 519 NH55SW 10
The mutilated remains of this Orkney-Cromarty cairn stand 800m ENE of Balvaird Mains farmhouse. Nine earthfast and four prostrate stones remain of what was probably a two compartment chamber entered through a passage on the ESE; there are two possible kerbstones on the SE.
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1979
Woodham 1956, 69, no. 3; Henshall 1963-72, i, 337
