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Kist Cairn
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Kist Cairn
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Glencairn
Canmore ID 15571
Site Number NH95SE 16
NGR NH 97141 53146
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15571
- Council Highland
- Parish Auldearn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH95SE 16 97141 53146.
(NH 9714 5314) Kist Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1908)
A considerable cairn of stones said to have been built over a grave.
Name Book 1870
Kist Cairn, situated alongside and mutilated by a wall and a consumption dyke lies in a small copse: it is composed of small stones, and measures about 10.0m NW to SE by 7.5m transversely and 0.6m high. There is a small circular depression 1.3m diameter by 0,8m deep on the E side of the cairn.
Kist Cairn at the head of Glencairn is said to be the grave of Cumming of Rait (The Nairnshire Telegraph, 15 September 1964). (GRC NH95SE 1)
Visited by OS (RD) 23 August 1965
Field Visit (22 September 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (May 1978)
Kist Cairn NH 971 531 NH 95 SE 16
The wasted remains of this cairn, which originally may have measured about 10m in diameter, are situated on the region boundary. The cairn material has been completely removed on the W of a wall which crosses the site from N to S.
RCAHMS 1978, visited May 1978
Name Book, Elgin, no. 10, p, 66
