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Tordarroch

Clearance Cairn(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Tordarroch

Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 13229

Site Number NH63SE 46

NGR NH 6794 3327

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NH63SE 46 6794 3327

This possible Pictish cemetery is a loose group consisting of a single square barrow and three small round cairns, which do not appear to be clearance heaps. The square cairn measures 4.5m E-W by 4.0m and is enclosed in a faint rectangular ditch. The round cairns stand about 0.5m high and are all approximately 4m in diameter.

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

Activities

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 (6 November 1992)

In a partially improved field SW of the township NH63SE 48 there are four grassed-over piles of stones, measuring up to 4m in diameter.

There is no evidence of a ditch around any of them, nor any other evidence that they are not clearance heaps.

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 6 November 1992.

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