Clury
Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Clury
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 15432
Site Number NH92SE 12
NGR NH 9714 2416
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Duthil And Rothiemurchus
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH92SE 12 9714 2416.
NH 9714 2416. On a false crest at about 850ft OD is a Wessex-type embanked cairn preserved within a near square modern plantation dyke. The cairn, quarried from the SW, measures about 14.0m in diameter and survives to a height of about 2.0m The surrounding bank spread to about 3.0m wide is 19.5m in diameter between its centres and is partially destroyed by the planation dyke in the N, E and S.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 17 February 1971.
External Reference (2011)
Oram 1996 p. 27 calls this Bronze Age.
Information from the ARCH Community Timeline Course, 2011
