Banchor
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Banchor
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 14098
Site Number NH72SE 6
NGR NH 76506 23739
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14098
- Council Highland
- Parish Moy And Dalarossie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH72SE 6 76506 23739
At NH 7651 2375 on a false crest within a field system (NH72SE 4), is a heather-covered cairn c.11.0m in diameter and 0.9m high.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (A A) 16 December 1971.
[Location amended from GIS to NH 76506 23739]. Scheduled as 'Banchor, cairn 315m SE of... a prehistoric burial cairn situated in rough pasture on a false crest overlooking the River Findhorn, at a height of 380m above sea level. It is situated within a complex of other prehistoric burial cairns, hut-circles and relic [sic.] field systems... [and] survives as a roughly circular, convex, turf-covered mound measuring 11.8m from E to W by 10.5m transversely, and 0.9m high.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 October 2007.
External Reference (2010)
Two cairns and an associated field system situated c. 400m south of a bend in the river Findhorn by Dalarossie church on a false crest, and within 400m of Dalarossie cairn . This cairn is well preserved.
Information from the ARCH Community Timelines Course, 2010
