Croftcrunie
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)(Possible)
Site Name Croftcrunie
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)(Possible)
Canmore ID 13610
Site Number NH65SW 6
NGR NH 6116 5195
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Killearnan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH65SW 6 6116 5195.
NH 6116 5175) Stone Circle (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Below Croftcrunie farm, 500 yards E (NNE) of the enclosure (NH65SW 8) and 200 yards SE of the enclosure (NH65SW 1) is a "beehive structure". The outer wall is 10 feet thick and 2-3ft high faced internally and externally with large boulders of gneiss closely laid together, with an infilling of firmly packed smaller stones and soil. In the centre is a circular hole still 5 feet deep, but partly filled with stones. It has the appearance of having had a widely vaulted roof (Beaton 1882). Woodham (1956) interprets Beaton's description as an open and mutilated mound cairn, the "vaulted roof" being conceivably a corbelled chamber. Henshall without visiting the site, suggests it may be a Clava-type cairn, the surrounding wall possibly being secondary.
A J Beaton 1882; A A Woodham 1956; A S Henshall 1963.
No trace in a pasture field
Visited by OS (N K B) 25 November 1970.
Field Visit (May 1979)
Croftcrunie (ROS 20) NH 611 519 NH 65 SW 6 & 13
Nothing now remains of what may have been a Clava cairn noted by Beaton in 1882. It was situated about 300m SSE of Croftcrunie farmhouse and measured 17m in diameter with a central chamber 5.5m in diameter.
RCAHMS 1979, visited May 1979
