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Inchbroke
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inchbroke
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Birchmoor
Canmore ID 15701
Site Number NJ02NW 3
NGR NJ 04664 25753
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15701
- Council Highland
- Parish Abernethy And Kincardine
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NJ02NW 3 04664 25753.
(NJ 0465 2575) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1903)
An unopened earthen tumulus.
Name Book 1871.
A mutilated cairn of large bare stones, 11.0m in diameter and 0.7m high, situated on a slight eminence at about 800ft OD. The perimeter is intact, but the interior has been heavily robbed probably to provide material for nearby ruined buildings.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 1 September 1966.
This cairn is situated in a pasture field 100m S of Birchmoor. It measures 10.6m in diameter, but the centre has been heavily robbed leaving a rim of cairn material 0.7m in height around the edge.
Visited by RCAHMS (TIP, IP) 5 September 2006.
External Reference (2011)
Richard Oram 1996 p. 29 states that a kerb of irregular waterworn boulders can be traced in places, and that a depression in the centre marks the position of a centrally-placed cist burial. This suggests that the cairn dates to the Bronze Age. Oram calls this site Inchbroke.
Information from the ARCH Community Timeline Course, 2011
