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Swordale Wood
Cairnfield (Prehistoric)
Site Name Swordale Wood
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Criech
Canmore ID 13862
Site Number NH68NW 1
NGR NH 636 897
NGR Description Centred NH 636 897
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH68NW 1 centred 636 897
(NH 6371 8970) Cairns (NR) (Two shown)
OS 6" map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1911)
A small group of seven or eight mounds of the usual character, one measuring some 23ft in diameter and 3 1/2ft high.
RCAHMS 1911.
Centred at NH 636 897 on the brink of a SW slope are about 30 stone clearance heaps, amongst them two published as 'Cairns' on OS 6" map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907). There is no trace of huts, lynchets or field walls, but the clearance heaps appear to be similar to those of Iron Age field systems elsewhere.
Visited by OS (A A) 11 November 1969.
No change
Visited by OS (J B) 9 September 1980.
Field Visit (2 August 1909)
64. Creich.
Within the wood to the N. of the NW. corner of the westmost of the upper cultivated fields above the Manse of Creich is a small group of seven or eight mounds of the usual character. One, situated about 80 yards NW. of the corner of the field, measures some 23' in diameter, and is about 3' 6" in height.
OS 6-inch map: Sutherland Sheet cxi.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 2nd August 1909.
