Leachonich
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)(Possible)
Site Name Leachonich
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Lechanich
Canmore ID 370625
Site Number NH68NE 100
NGR NH 68213 85960
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/370625
- Council Highland
- Parish Edderton
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Field Visit (23 June 1975)
NH68NE 100 6820 8589.
Formerly recorded as part of NH86NE 30.
About 65 metres to the N [of NH68NE 30] on a false crest, are the scant remains of a stony mound c. 11.0m in diameter. It has been quarried away leaving a scatter of heather grown debris within a slight rim. To the E of centre are two earthfast conglomerate slabs, one facing N-S and the other E-W, which may represent a portal stone and a side slab of a chamber otherwise destroyed.
Visited by OS (A A) 23 June 1975.
Field Visit (September 1978)
Lechanich NH 682 859 NH 68 NE 30
What may be the wasted remains of a chambered cairn measuring about 11 m in diameter stand 400m of Lechanich farmhouse. Two slabs standing at the centre of the cairn may be the remains of a burial-chamber.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
