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Culmaily
Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Culmaily
Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 5000
Site Number NC50NE 30
NGR NC 5978 0697
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5000
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50NE 30 5978 0697
(NC 5978 0697) Tumuli (NR).
OS 6" map, Sutherlandshire, 2nd ed., (1908)
These mounds have virtually disappeared due to cultivation and construction of a new road, but it would appear that they were the usual field clearance heaps. RCAHMS note a hut circle lying 100 yards to the south, but this could not be located.
Visited by OS (W D J) 28 June 1963.
RCAHMS 1911.
The area containing the 'tumuli' shown on OS 6" map, 2nd ed., (1908) is now under crop, and there is no trace of mounds or a hut circle. On the E side of the public road in pasture at NC 599 069 are several stone clearance heaps of a minor field system. These show no pattern of cultivation plots. Presumably the 'tumuli' were also a result of field clearance.
Visited by OS (N K B), 26 July 1976.
