Cullernie
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cullernie
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 14196
Site Number NH74NW 12
NGR NH 726 477
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH74NW 12 726 477.
There are two circles, each six yards in diameter and almost touching each other, about fifty paces from the road and a hundred and fifty paces from the Cairn at Cullernie (NH74NW 4). Their common axis bears N. 25 degrees E and in the middle of the western one once stood a single stone, now fallen.
G Anderson 1831.
There are no circles evident in the vicinity of the
area described above.
Visited by OS (E G C) 26 April 1962.
No signs of this cairn remain.
A S Henshall 1963.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (A A) 20 March 1971.
Field Visit (February 1978)
Cullernie 1 NH c.725 477 NH74NW 12 & 13
Nothing can now be seen of two 'circles', possibly prehistoric burial-cairns, noted by Anderson in 1824 near the Clava cairn (NH74NW 4). This may be the site that Fraser noted in 1884.
RCAHMS 1979, visited February 1978
(Anderson, G 1831, 218; Fraser 1884, 361, no. 34; Henshall 1963-72, i, 373)
