The Priest's Sepulchre
Chambered Tomb (Neolithic)(Possible)
Site Name The Priest's Sepulchre
Classification Chambered Tomb (Neolithic)(Possible)
Canmore ID 13685
Site Number NH66NW 9
NGR NH 60 66
NGR Description NH c. 60 66
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltearn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH66NW 9 60 66.
The Priest's Sepulchre. The Statistical Account (OSA, 1791) states 'On the north side of the river Skiack, and nearly opposite the village of Drummond, a grave of an oblong form lined with stone in the same manner as those described above (short cists), it is called the "Priest's Sepulchre", and is 7ft long, 3ft broad and 3 1/2ft deep.'
This sounds like a denuded rectangular chamber. This might be the site seen by Pococke in 1760 lying between Foulis Castle and the Allt Graad...'a cairn with two stones set up before it; in a cell with five stones'... in which bones were found.
OSA 1791; R Pococke 1887; A S Henshall 1963.
No further information. Cairn not located.
Visited by OS (R D L) 5 May 1963.
Note (1979)
The Priest's Sepulchre (ROS 35) NH c.60 66 NH66NW 9
In 1791 a 'grave of oblong form' measuring 2.1 m by 0.9m and 1.07m deep was recorded; it may have been the chamber or passage of a chambered cairn.
RCAHMS 1979
(Henshall 1963-72, i, 354)
