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White Bog Wood
Cairn (Prehistoric), Human Remains (Prehistoric)
Site Name White Bog Wood
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric), Human Remains (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 14540
Site Number NH76SW 9
NGR NH 73240 62131
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14540
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromarty
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH76SW 9 7323 6213.
(NH 7323 6213) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Site of Cairn (NR) Human Remains found 1811.
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
Woodham (1956) could find no trace of this cairn site. The cairn was removed in 1811 when 'human bones of a gigantic size' were found in it.
Name Book 1871; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; A A Woodham 1956.
Published site in an area of afforestation. No trace.
Visited by OS (RB) 13 January 1966.
'Ruined cairn'. No details given.
D W Ross 1990.
Field Visit (24 August 1943)
No remains were found at the cairn site S of Grey Cairn, as marked on the 6-inch OS map, and the place need not be revisited.
Visited by RCAHMS (AG) 24 August 1943.
Note (1979)
Whitebog Wood NH 732 621 NH76SW 9
In 1811 a cairn, situated 1.2km WSW of Glenurquhart farmhouse, was removed, revealing 'human bones of a gigantic size'.
RCAHMS 1979
NSA, xiv (Ross and Cromarty), 8; Woodham 1956, 81, no. 44
