Midlairgs
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Midlairgs
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 14124
Site Number NH73NW 7
NGR NH 7133 3667
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14124
- Council Highland
- Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH73NW 7 7133 3667.
(NH 7134 3667) Tumulus (NR) Stone Coffin found (AD. 1839) (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905)
This is a small mound of earth situated in a small piece of flat moss...about the year 1839, a stone coffin was found here, supposed to have contained human remains. No other information could be obtained about this mound.
Name Book 1870.
A ciarn with cist measuring about 39 x 20 x 20 inches lying ENE (magnetic) and enclosued by a stone circle, occurs at Mid Lairgs.
D Cameron 1882.
This small cairn, partially grass covered, measures 4.6m in diameter and 0.7m high. Lying on top is a large slab 1.1m x 1.0m x 0.2m thick, possibly the cover stone of a cist although no trace of a cist was noticed.
There is no evidence to support Cameron (1882) statement that the cairn was enclosed by a stone circle.
Visited by OD (W D J) 29 August 1963.