Culloden
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Culloden
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Allanfearn
Canmore ID 14240
Site Number NH74NW 5
NGR NH 71631 47608
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14240
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH74NW 5 7162 4761
See also NH74NW 11 and NH74NW 113.
(NH 7162 4761) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1874, sheet iv).
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1907).
The remains of this chambered cairn consisted, in 1879, of "twenty-five stones of which, however, only seven appear to be in their natural position" (ISSFC 1885). Today it is almost entirely destroyed, the main feature being a standing stone 5ft 6ins high, 4ft wide by 2ft 9ins to 3ft thick at the base. Round it are grouped a number of large boulders, all of which appear to have been moved.
This may be the site described by Anderson (1831) consisting of thirty upright stones in two rows (see NH74NW 11)
G Anderson 1831; J Fraser 1884; ISSFC 1885; A S Henshall 1963.
The remains of the cairn are as described above. The stones are grouped together on a low mound c.8.0m in diameter.
Visited by OS (EGC) 25 April 1962.
Field Visit (January 1978)
Culloden (INV 25) NH 716 476 NH74NW 5
Only a heap of boulders and a single standing stone remain of what was probably a Clava cairn.
RCAHMS 1979, visited February 1978
(Henshall 1963-72, i,373)
