Auchendean
Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Cist(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Auchendean
Classification Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Cist(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Mid Curr
Canmore ID 15445
Site Number NH92SE 5
NGR NH 9951 2332
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15445
- Council Highland
- Parish Duthil And Rothiemurchus
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH92SE 5 9951 2332.
(NH 9949 2337) Cairn (NR) Two Stone Coffins found here AD 1866.
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
A cairn composed wholly of loose stones and of considerable size. When opened in 1866 it was found to contain two stone cists embedded in fine sand.
Name Book 1871.
A turf-covered cairn, mainly of stones with some earth, situated on a gentle wooded E slope at about 800ft OD. It is obscured by under- growth and fallen trees, but measures approximately 16.0m E-W by 13.5m N-S, and 2.0m maximum height. A depression in the centre marks the 1866 excavation.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 16 April 1966.
Field Visit (25 September 1943)
Cairn, Mid Curr.
The site of this monument is marked on the E fringe of Curr Wood between the 800’-850’ contours, just behind the two modern residences and less than 400 yds W of Mid Curr steading. All that remains of the cairn is a roughly circular bank of moss-grown boulders, some 62’ across from crest to crest, with other boulders in the interior. The terrain is sloping gravelly alluvium. To the SW, an elongated ridge of gravel terminates to the E in a stoney hummock that might also be taken for the remains of a cairn.
Visited by RCAHMS (VGC, AG) 25 September 1943
Map ref: xlvi (‘Cairn’)
