Battle Moss
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Battle Moss
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 270912
Site Number ND34SW 231
NGR ND 31387 43329
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/270912
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 231 31387 43329
see also ND34SW 46 & 47
This grass- and heather-grown cairn is the central of a row of three (see also ND34SW 46 & 47) situated on the leading edge of a N-facing terrace in moorland immediately E of the S end of Loch of Yarrows. The cairn measures about 5.6m in diameter by 0.4m in height and it has been robbed, leaving a small depression at its centre.
This cairn was previously noted in reference to the cairn ND34SW 46, which lies immediately to the E, and it is one of the 'three small cairns, with central cists, arranged in a line at a short distance from each other', noted by Anderson (1870, 502).
(YARROWS04 046)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 15 June 2004
Anderson, J 1970 'On the horned cairns of Caithness, their structural arrangement, contents of chambers, etc,' Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 7 (1866-68).
