Torr Sgriobhaidh
Cairn (Prehistoric), Cist (Prehistoric), Knife (Flint)(Prehistoric), Necklace (Jet)(Prehistoric)
Site Name Torr Sgriobhaidh
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric), Cist (Prehistoric), Knife (Flint)(Prehistoric), Necklace (Jet)(Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 13897
Site Number NH68SE 2
NGR NH 69731 84668
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13897
- Council Highland
- Parish Edderton
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH68SE 2 6973 8466.
(NH 6973 8466) Torr Sgriobhaidh (NAT) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
A short cist was found in a cairn on Torr Sgriobhaidh. In the cist was a knife of black flint, together with a crescentic necklace of jet which is now in the Royal Scottish Academy.
J G Callander 1916.
Torr Sgriobhaidh is a large prominent natural knoll 41m N-S by 35m E-W and c. 5m high on the west side. It is grass-covered and no traces of a cairn or cist were seen on it.
Visited by OS (W D J) 14 May 1963.
Jet necklace and flint knife are now in the Royal Museum of Scotland (RMS, [NMAS]): L.1591.1a, 1b.
Palace of History 1911; A Morrison 1979.
Field Visit (4 October 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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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)
Torr Sgriobaidh NH 697 846 NH68SE 2
Nothing now survives of this cairn in which a cist containing a flint knife and a jet necklace was found before 1916.
RCAHMS 1979
(Callander 1916, 212, 239, no. 11)
