Lethen Bar
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Lethen Bar
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Druidical Circle
Canmore ID 15486
Site Number NH94NE 5
NGR NH 95594 49461
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Ardclach
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH94NE 5 9558 4946
An allegedly 'very perfect Druidical circle' on the top of Lethen Bar was found to be only 'a faint indication of a circular mound or enclosure of earth and small stones covered with heather'.
J Fraser 1884.
At NH 9558 4946, prominently situated on top of Lethen Bar at 847ft OD, is a robbed cairn with the centre occupied by a trig pillar. Only the outer rim remains, about 25.0m overall diameter, leaving an uneven turf-covered stony interior. A number of boulders on the eastern perimeter are probably the remains of a kerb.
Surveyed at 1/2500 (OS {R D} 23 August 1965).
Visited by OS (R L), 19 January 1971.
Field Visit (May 1978)
Lethen Bar NH 955 494 NH94NE 5
The wasted remains of this cairn measure about 25m in diameter and are surmounted by an OS triangulation station.
RCAHMS 1989, visited May 1978
NSA, xiii (Nairn), 32; Fraser 1884, 353-4
