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Tordarroch
Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Site Name Tordarroch
Classification Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 13223
Site Number NH63SE 40
NGR NH 6808 3341
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13223
- Council Highland
- Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH63SE 40 6808 3341
One of two possible cairns SE of the ring cairn (NH63SE 3). Low oval mound c. 14.0m NE-SW by c. 8.5m standing no more than 0.5m high. Where the cairn material is not covered by grass or heather it can be seen to be composed of stones which look too small (fist-sized to 0.35m in diameter) to be the result of agricultural clearance. Its edges are very poorly defined especially to the E where the adjacent ground is actually higher. It may be that the delapidated state of this monument is due to robbing for the construction of features associated with the nearby depopulated settlement.
Information from S T Driscoll 1989 (see archive MS/550, 2-3).
Project (July 1989)
Pre-afforestation survey undertaken in Tordarroch, Davoit and Dunlichty, Inverness, commissioned by Historic Buildings and Monuments, Scottish Development department.
S T Driscoll, 1989.
Field Visit (5 November 1992)
This low stony mound is composed largely of water-rolled pebbles. It does not have the appearance of a burial cairn and it is probably largely of natural origin, though it may have had field clearance added to it. There is a similar feature some 40m to the SW (NH63SE 41).
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 5 November 1992.
Field Visit (1 June 2009 - 30 November 2009)
NH 47056 13151 to NH 72140 40266 Recommendations for mitigation and recording arising a desk-based assessment and walk-over survey carried out in 2009 ahead of refurbishment of an overhead power line running from Daviot to Whitebridge in Inverness-shire. From this were then implemented during the refurbishment work. However in most cases it proved possible to refurbish existing poles rather than replace them; and where replacement took place the new poles were located on exactly the same sites as their predecessors. Although the work was monitored, no archaeology was affected.
Information from J Wood - Highland Archaeology Services Ltd
OASIS ID: highland4-78235
