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Cnoc Ducharie
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cnoc Ducharie
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 13777
Site Number NH67SW 14
NGR NH 62353 71646
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13777
- Council Highland
- Parish Alness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH67SW 14 6235 7165.
NH 6235 7165. Some 27m SSE of the cairn at Cnoc Ducharie (NH67SW 13) are the remains of a smaller one. It consists of a much mutilated mound of stones, now mostly grass-covered, 8m in diameter and c.1.2m high. One or two large stones around the perimeter suggest that it may have had a kerb. In the centre of the cairn is a dilapidated rectangular cavity 3.0m long by 2.0m wide by 0.6m deep.
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (W D J) 1 May 1963.
Note (1979)
Cnoc Duchaire 2 NH623716 NH67SW 14
This mutilated cairn stands in dense forest 27m SSE of Cnoc Duchaire 1 (no. 43); in 1963 it measured 8m in diameter and stood 1.2m high within what may have been a kerb.
RCAHMS 1979
