Tongue House
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Tongue House
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 5325
Site Number NC55NE 2
NGR NC 5926 5862
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Tongue
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC55NE 2 5926 5862.
(NC 5927 5862) Chambered Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1962)
An Orkney-Cromarty type round cairn with a polygonal chamber, excavated by Horsburgh about 1867 and almost entirely destroyed by 1909. Most of the kerb of boulders, 57ft in diameter, remains but within this only a few large, displaced boulders lie about the site, most of the cairn material having been removed. Horsburgh noted that one of the stones of the chamber 'had two holes bored artificially a short way into each of its sides, but not quite opposite, the holes were about 3ins in diameter'.
A S Henshall 1963, visited 11 July 1958; J Horsburgh 1870; RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909
The remains of a chambered cairn about 15m in diameter. The kerb of boulders survives intermittently, best preserved in the east and south. Several boulders within the kerb form no intelligible pattern.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JD) 26 April 1960 and (ISS) 1 July 1971
No change to previous field reports.
Visited by OS (JB) 15 September 1977
