Rovie Farm
Cist(S) (Bronze Age)
Site Name Rovie Farm
Classification Cist(S) (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 5967
Site Number NC70SW 13
NGR NC 7169 0225
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5967
- Council Highland
- Parish Rogart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC70SW 13 7169 0225.
(NC 7169 0225) Shale Beads found A.D. 1840 (NAT)
OS 6"map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1907)
Shale beads were found at Rovie farm steading near the site of the old church.
Name Book 1873.
Some cists, containing skeletons and some shale beads, were found a few years ago immediately to one side of Rovie House, on the top of a bank which looks very much like an old sea beach.
L Tait 1870.
No further information.
Visited by OS (R D L) 8 July 1963.
