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Arcan Mains
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Arcan Mains
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 12870
Site Number NH55SW 8
NGR NH 50308 53530
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Urray (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH55SW 8 5030 5352.
(NH 50305352) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6"map, (1938)
The remains of a stone circle; 4 of the stones are upright, the remainder are fallen. It is also locally stated to have been used as a burial place for unbaptised children.
Name Book 1876.
On level ground at the brink of a natural escarpment are twenty two rounded boulders, few of them earth-fast, forming a rough circle
c.16.0m in diameter. The stones are too small to have been a stone circle and probably represent the remains of the peristalith of a robbed cairn.
Resurveyed at 1/2500 (Visited by OS (R D) 20 January 1965)
Visited by OS (R L) 19 November 1970.
No change.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) March 1989.
Field Visit (28 August 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (July 1979)
Arcan Mains NH 503 535 NH55SW 8
All that remains of this cairn, which measured about 16m in diameter, are a number of the displaced kerb-stones.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1979
