Cape Wrath Hotel
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Cape Wrath Hotel
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 4772
Site Number NC36NE 13
NGR NC 3898 6609
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC36NE 13 3898 6609.
(NC 3898 6609) Chambered Cairn (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map, (1962)
The heavily robbed remains of an Orkney-Cromarty round cairn with a polygonal chamber (A S Henshall 1972), found during field investigation (OS [JLD] 7 April 1960). Peat covers the remains of the cairn material but a slight bank round the W and N sides seems to represent the original edge of the cairn giving a diameter of between 55 ft and 65 ft. The cairn material seems to have spread beyond the original edge on the E and S, the orthostats of the chamber standing in the resulting slight hollow with varying amount of cairn material surrounding them. Robbing has been heaviest behind the chamber, inside which there is about 3 ft of stone.
A S Henshall 1972, visited 1963; Visited by OS (J L D) 7 April 1963.
The remains of a chambered cairn, as described.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 21 July 1971.
No change to the previous field report.
Visited by OS (J B) 14 November 1978.
