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Breachloch Hill

Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Breachloch Hill

Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 13570

Site Number NH65NW 7

NGR NH 63774 58338

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Breachloch Hill, NH65NW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Breachloch Hill, NH65NW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Resolis
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Activities

Field Visit (1989)

NH65NW 7 6378 5838

The probable remains of a cairn, much mutilated by ploughing. It measures 10m E-W by 6m and stands up to 1.0m high. A large robbing hollow near its north edge indicates an earth and stone content. (The site was located by the Forestry Commission).

Information from D W Ross to RCAHMS 22 February 1989.

Field Visit (February 2010)

NH 63774 58338 Round cairn

It has a 8 x 10m stone spread, with stone visible in a 1.5 x 2.5m central Depression, which has been completely robbed out, probably as a result of plundering.

M Peteranna 2010

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