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Milton
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Milton
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 15408
Site Number NH91SW 2
NGR NH 9420 1442
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15408
- Council Highland
- Parish Abernethy And Kincardine
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH91SW 2 9420 1442.
(NH 9420 1442) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
Stone Coffin containing Human Remains found here AD 1830 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
A cairn of stones in which was found a stone coffin about 4' x 2' x 2' containing human remains. It was discovered about 1830 when stones were being removed by workmen. No trace of the cairn now remains and nothing is known of its date.
Name Book 1871.
The siting symbol on 1:10,000 (1973) plan falls on a N-facing slope, in a most unlikely place for a cairn. All that can be seen in the area are the stone clearance heaps of a field system (NH91SW 4), and it is possible that the "coffin" was in reality a short cist either covered by a clearance heap or inserted into one, depending on the dating relationship of cist to field system.
Visited by OS (N K B) 14 November 1966 and (A A) 18 February 1974.
