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Cnoc Nan Craiseag, Mount Eagle
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cnoc Nan Craiseag, Mount Eagle
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 13566
Site Number NH65NW 3
NGR NH 64815 59581
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13566
- Council Highland
- Parish Resolis
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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.
Desk Based Assessment (1956)
(NH 6480 5959) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959).
This is a round cairn, 32' in diameter and 4' high, heather-covered and with a few trees growing in it. A depression in the centre suggests that an attempt has been made to plunder it.
When Woodham visited the site the area had been trenched preparatory to planting.
A A Woodham 1956.
Information from OS
Source: A A Woodham 1956; RCAHMS 1979
Field Visit (9 March 1966)
The cairn, as described, by Woodham, is situated in the centre of an afforested area. A few stones protrude through the heather in the centre of the cairn.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R B), 9 March 1966.
Field Visit (May 1979)
Cnoc nan Craiseag, Mount Eagle NH 648 595 NH65NW 3
This cairn stands in a clearing in West Culbo Wood 1.4km E of Upper Badrain farmhouse; it measures 9.8m in diameter, 1.3m in height and is surrounded by a ditch.
RCAHMS 1979, visited May 1979
MS. notes in NM RS, RCAMS Emergency Surveys; Woodham 1956, 75, no. 22
Field Visit (February 2010)
NH 64815 59581 Round cairn
Heather-covered round cairn (11m diameter) with stone visible in central depression, probably the result of plundering, encircled by 1m wide ditch.
M Peteranna 2010
