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Dalreoch
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Dalreoch
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Moultavie
Canmore ID 13783
Site Number NH67SW 2
NGR NH 63129 71757
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13783
- Council Highland
- Parish Alness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH67SW 2 6313 7176.
(NH 6313 7176) Cairn (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
The remains of a heavily robbed cairn, with surrounding bank. It is situated on the false crest of an east-facing spur in a new forestry plantation. The cairn measures c.10.0m in diameter and 1.0m maximum height; and its S arc is still retained by a kerb of small boulders. It is centrally placed within a circular stony bank 15.5m crest to crest, and 2.0m wide by 0.5m high, which is destroyed on the E side. There is no evidence of an internal ditch, although there is a hollow, probably a later mutilation, in the SE between the cairn and the bank, in which lies a flag-stone.
A wessex type cairn situated in the false crest of an eastern span in Dalverds wood at a height of 500ft OD. It consists of a bowl-type cairn measuring c.11.om in diameter and 1.0m in height with a massive retaining kerb, surrounded by a substantial stone bank measuring 15.5m centre to centre, mutilated in the E side heavily overgrown with firs and heather.
Visited by OS (A A) 17 September 1967.
Note (1979)
Dalreoch NH 631 717 NH67SW 2
In 1967 this cairn measured about 10m in diameter and 1 m high, and was surrounded by a stony bank 13.5m in diameter, 2m thick and 0.5m high. The cairn is now inaccessible in dense forest.
RCAHMS 1979
