Hill Of Urchany
Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Hill Of Urchany
Classification Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 15168
Site Number NH85SE 15
NGR NH 8919 5100
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Nairn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH85SE 15 8917 5100
See also NH85SE 14.
At NH 8917 5100 on a rise with an extensive view to the NW on the Hill of Urchany, is a cairn measuring 10.0m in diameter overall and about 0.8m high. Surrounding it is a kerb of contiguous stones, well preserved except in the W arc which is mutilated by tree stumps. The centre has recently been dug into.
About 120.0m to the NW of the cairn on a NW facing slope is a mutilated mound of stones about 6.5m in diameter, whose isolation suggests a burial cairn, but its content of unequal-sized stones, its situation on the slope, and lack of a cist in the mutilated centre, throws doubt on it.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 5 February 1971.
Both cairns are now inaccessible in dense forest.
RCAHMS 1978, visited 1978.
Field Visit (May 1978)
Hill of Urchany 1 NH 891 510 NH85SE 15
In 1971 this cairn measured 10m in diameter, stood about 0.8m high and was surrounded by a kerb. A possible second cairn stood 120m to the NW. Both cairns are now inaccessible in dense woodland.
RCAHMS 1978, visited May 1978
