Ardvannie
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Ardvannie
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 13852
Site Number NH68NE 5
NGR NH 69159 87899
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Edderton
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH68NE 5 6915 8790
(NH 6915 8790) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907)
An ancient cairn situated on a wooded knoll.
OS Name Book 1874.
A large mound of bare stones situated on top of a natural knoll, now devoid of trees, over-looking the Dornoch Firth. It measures 18.5m E-W by 17.8m N-S and its height varies from 1.5m in the north side to 2.0m in the east side. The top is flattish and there is evidence of excavation but no trace of a cist or chamber was seen and no evidence of a kerb was noted round the perimeter.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (W D J), 15 May 1963.
Field Visit (9 September 1943)
Cairn, Rudha nan Sgarbh.
About ½ W of this promontory on the top of another bluff above the shore is a conspicuous cairn of bare rounded boulders. A hole about 3 ft deep has been dug near the centre, but no structure is exposed in it or anywhere else. The cairn is about 50 ft across and rises 4 ft above the heather on the N and 9 ft on the SE.
Visited by RCAHMS 9 September 1943.
Field Visit (October 1978)
Ardvannie 6 NH 691 879 NH 68 NE 5
This oval cairn measures 18.5m in maximum diameter and stands 2m high. On the W there are traces of a shallow ditch and external bank surrounding the cairn; the ditch is interrupted by a causeway on the W.
RCAHMS 1979, visited October 1978.
(Name Book, Ross-shire, no. 10, p. 5.)
