Upper Drumbuie
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Upper Drumbuie
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 260426
Site Number NH53SW 57
NGR NH 51655 31408
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/260426
- Council Highland
- Parish Urquhart And Glenmoriston
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (7 October 1997)
This heather and bracken-grown, burnt mound is situated on the W side of a small burn, immediately outside the enclosed fields of Upper Drumbuie. C-shaped on plan, it measures 9m from N to S by 7m transversely and up to 1m in height. The open side of the mound faces towards the burn on the E, and there is an exposure of cracked stone, black soil and charcoal on the S.
(URQ97 87)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 7 October 1997.
Field Visit (7 September 1997)
NH53SW 57 51655 31408
This heather and bracken-grown, burnt mound is situated on the W side of a small burn, immediately outside the enclosed fields of Upper Drumbuie. C-shaped on plan, it measures 9m from N to S by 7m transversely and up to 1m in height. The open side of the mound faces towards the burn on the E, and there is an exposure of cracked stone, black soil and charcoal on the S.
(URQ97 87)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 7 October 1997.
Scheduled as 'Upper Drumbuie, burnt mound 230m NNE of... located to the W side of a burn on the upper slopes of a wide valley. A track passes immediately to the WNW of the mound.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 27 September 2007.