Tordarroch

Pre-afforestation survey undertaken in Tordarroch, Davoit and Dunlichty, Inverness, commissioned by Historic Buildings and Monuments, Scottish Development department.

S T Driscoll, 1989.

NH63SE 45 6817 3360

This possible Pictish cemetery consists of a group of six possibly seven low rectangular cairns alongside the line of a silted up burn. In general these cairns consist of flat mounds between 0.25-0.5m high of stones which vary between fist-sized and 0.25m in diameter. In several cases shallow straight ditches can be seen to enclose the cairn, in other cases the cairns have clearly been constructed so as to share a common side. The cluster of four or five cairns includes ones which range from 5.5m E-W by 5.0m to 3.4m E-W by 3.2m. A short distance away are two apparently isolated cairns. The one at NH 6817 3356 measures 4.8m N-S by 4.4m and is enclosed in a shallow ditch; it is also enclosed within an apparently later field boundary. The other isolated cairn is located at NH 6818 3359 and measures 4.2m NW-SE by 3.5m. All of the cairns are at least in part obscured by grass and heather and there is a distinct possibility that others await discovery.

Information from S T Driscoll 1989 (see archive MS/550, 5)

In heather-covered ground at the N end of a field bank associated with the township NH63SE 48, there are at least four piles of stones. One of these is sub-circular and two are roughly rectangular, but they do not appear to be bounded by ditches. The 'cluster of four or five cairns' described by Driscoll is a spread of dumped material which has been added to at times, thus producing the appearance of being several conjoined mounds. There is nothing to suggest that these features represent anything other than field clearance, probably associated with the township mentioned above.

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 5 November 1992.

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