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Raasay, Suisnish Hill
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Raasay, Suisnish Hill
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 289242
Site Number NG53SE 44
NGR NG 55760 34833
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/289242
- Council Highland
- Parish Portree
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG53SE 44 55760 34833
NG 55760 34833 Small Round Cairn. A group of heather covered cairns has been noted to the east of the old track way of the Raasay Iron Mine Railway on the moor land between the remains of the pier installation and mines to the north. Site identified during an archaeological survey on Raasay by the ACFA.
Anne Wood and Scott Wood, 2004.
Field Visit (22 May 1914)
Cairns, Suisnish, Raasay.
Immediately to the east of the tramway to the iron mines on the island of Raasay, about 500 yards north-east of the pier at Suisnish, on a heather covered,gently sloping hillside at an elevation of 200 feet above sea-level, is a group of four small stone cairns buried in peat. The largest cairn, which lies 100 feet from the tramway, is 18 feet in diameter and 3 feet in height ; 11 yards to the south-east is the smallest, 12 feet in diameter and about 2 feet in height; 30 yards to the east-north-east is the third, 14 feet in diameter and 2 feet in height, and about the same distance to the north is the fourth, measuring 16 feet in diameter and 2 feet in height. As this last cairn encroaches on the line of the tramway a narrow trench has been cut through it near the edge, showing the structure of the mound. It is formed entirely of stones without any admixture of soil, and is covered with a growth of peat 1 foot thick. About 100 yards to the east, beyond a slight ridge, on both sides of a hollow, is a larger group of similar cairns. At least ten can be counted, several of them occurring in pairs about 9 feet apart. They measure from 14 to 16 feet in diameter and from 2 to 2 ½ feet in height.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 22 May 1914.
OS map: Skye xxxv (unnoted).
