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Culloden Station

Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)

Site Name Culloden Station

Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)

Canmore ID 14160

Site Number NH74NE 24

NGR NH 76 45

NGR Description NH c. 76 45

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Croy And Dalcross (Inverness)
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NH74NE 24 c. 76 45.

A cairn (prob. stone circle is meant) was examined, during an excursion on the 28th June 1879, above Culloden (Moor) Station. It consisted of 25 stones of which only 7 appeared to be in their original position.

ISSFC 1885.

There is no trace, and no local knowledge of this cairn or stone circle.

Visited by OS (N K B) 12 August 1964.

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Note (1979)

Culloden NH c.76 45 NH74NE 24

In 1879 a cairn was recorded 'above Culloden station'; only seven stones remained in situ.The cairn cannot now be located.

RCAHMS 1979

(Transactions of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club, i, 1875-80, 253)

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