Pitarxie
Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Pitarxie
Classification Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 5089
Site Number NC50SE 27
NGR NC 5745 0395
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50SE 27 5745 0395.
(NC 5745 0395) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)
A stony hillock, almost circular, measuring 11.5m N-S by 11m by 1.5m high. It appears to be a cairn, although there is no definite evidence of kerbing. At the centre of the flat top there is a thin slab 0.9m long set on edge and oriented NE-SW.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (E G C) 1 July 1963.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
This is undoubtedly a cairn as described above, except that three or four stones forming an arc at the NE periphery are of a retaining kerb indicating a diameter of 11.0m.
Visited by OS (J M) 10 August 1976.