Cnoc A'mhargadaidh
Beaker (Possible)
Site Name Cnoc A'mhargadaidh
Classification Beaker (Possible)
Canmore ID 12877
Site Number NH56NE 14
NGR NH 5568 6779
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12877
- Council Highland
- Parish Alness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH56NE 14 5568 6779
According to Mr Munro-Fergusson (Novar House, Alness), an ornamented urn was found at NH 5568 6799 during the construction of a forestry road about 1965. It crumbled away when picked up. Fergusson didn't see it, but from a workman's description believes it was a beaker.
Visited by OS (I S S) 29 August 1972
(2010)
Area known locally as Cnoc an Each, Swordale. Norman Macrae (Romance of a royal burgh: Dingwall's story of a thousand years, 1923) identified the area as a cairnfield, but without cists or finds. However, in the 1960s a cist containing a beaker was found while bulldozing a forest road, but the beaker disintegrated on exposure to the open air.
Information from the ARCH Community Timelines Course, 2010
