Wood Of Brae
Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Wood Of Brae
Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 13689
Site Number NH66SE 3
NGR NH 6855 6197
NGR Description Centred on NH c.6855 6197
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13689
- Council Highland
- Parish Resolis
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH66SE 3 centred 6855 6197.
(Centred NH 6855 6197) Cairns (NR)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1902)
A group of the usual small cairns which make up the cairnfields of this part of Scotland. Averaging 10ft diameter and having maximum height of 2ft. This group is in a plantation of young firs and is heavily overgrown with heather.
A A Woodham 1956.
There are no traces of these cairns in an area of dense afforestation.
Visited by OS (N K B) 27 January 1966.
Cairns (NR) (sites of)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Field Visit (26 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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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.
Note (1979)
Wood of Brae NH685 619 NH66SE 3
This group of cairns is now inaccessible in dense forest.
Woodham 1956, 80, no. 37
