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Maikle
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned), Razor (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Maikle
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned), Razor (Bronze)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Meikle; Balblair
Canmore ID 14014
Site Number NH69SW 26
NGR NH 6007 9384
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14014
- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH69SW 26 6007 9384.
(NH 6007 9384) Cairn (NR) Short Cist containing an Urn and Pictish Razor found A.D. 1853 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907)
On the farm of Meikle, about 200 yards NNW of the farm buildings, are the remains of a large cairn. It appears to have measured some 70ft in diameter, but about a third of it on the E side has been removed. The remainder is from 10ft to 12ft high. There are no signs of a cist or chamber. A short cist containing a cinerary urn and a Middle Bronze Age (Coles 1966) bronze razor was found in the cairn in 1853. The razor was in Dunrobin Museum in 1874.
J A Smith 1870; 1875; RCAHMS 1911; J M Coles 1966.
A much mutilated cairn, generally as described above.
Revised at 1/12500.
Visited by OS (R D L) 4 June 1963.
The cairn, which is about 24.5m in diameter, is as described above. It stands on ground sloping to the SE, and the material rises up to 2.0m above ground level. Small stones from recent field clearance have been dumped in places.
Survey revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 1 September 1980.
The only bronze razor in Dunrobin Museum is that described by Smith (1875) (Accession no: X 48), but according to the accessions register, it was found before 1834 in a cist with cremation in a cairn between Strathbrora and Strathfleet, Rogart, some 20 kms to the NE.
Visited by OS (N K B) 20 October 1980.
Field Visit (6 October 1909)
89. Cairn, Maikle.
On the farm of Maikle, about 200 yards NNW. of the farm buildings, are the remains of a large cairn. It appears to have measured some 70' in diameter; but about one-third of it, on the E. side, has been removed. The remainder is from 10' to 12' high. There are no signs of a chamber or cist exposed. A short cist, containing a cinerary urn and a bronze blade, was found in the cairn in 1853.
See Antiquaries, x. p. 432 (relic illus.).
OS Map, Sutherland, sheet cviii.
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 6th October 1909.
