The Lith
Consumption Cairn (Post Medieval)
Site Name The Lith
Classification Consumption Cairn (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 271074
Site Number ND34SW 384
NGR ND 32036 40751
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 384 ND 32036 40751
This consumption cairn, which is situated in low-lying ground 25m E of The Lith, comprises a rectangular grass- and heather-grown heap of limestone boulders and stones retained by a battered drystone wall. It measures 14m from NNE to SSW by 5.5m transversely and up to 1.6m in height, and has a rounded SSW end, but the retaining wall has been removed from the WNW side and the NNW end.
(YARROWS04 275)
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW) 26 August 2004.
