Dalarossie
Ring Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Dalarossie
Classification Ring Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Dalarossie Cottage; River Findhorn
Canmore ID 14097
Site Number NH72SE 5
NGR NH 76716 24068
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14097
- Council Highland
- Parish Moy And Dalarossie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH72SE 5 76716 24068
At NH 7671 2407 on a shelf overlooking the River Findhorn is a 'saucer' cairn consisting of a circular stony bank spread to an average of 2.7m and measuring in overall diameter 18.0m, which encloses a central stony mound 8.0m in diameter and 0.3m high. There are traces of a possible break in the bank in the E arc. The cairn occurs near the N edge of a field system (NH72SE 4).
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 16 December 1971.
Scheduled as 'Dalarossie Cottage, cairn 375m SSE of... a ring cairn...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 October 2007.
