Norgate House
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Norgate House
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 5979
Site Number NC70SW 24
NGR NC 7168 0281
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5979
- Council Highland
- Parish Rogart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC70SW 24 7168 0281.
On 20th March 1867 a large tumulus was opened at Tordarroch (the 'Knoll of Oaks') about 1/2 mile above Pittenrail. It was about 25ft in diameter and 5ft high. It stood in a cultivated field, and its edges had been squared by the plough. It was composed principally of river-rolled stones. It contained a cist 2ft long.
L Tait 1870.
There is no evidence of a 'large tumulus' on Cnoc an Daraich, a natural knoll planted with oaks, measuring 42.0m N-S by 23.0m transversely, completely surrounded by a dry-stone wall. On the E side of a cultivated field at NC 7168 0281 there is a grass-covered mound of earth and river-rolled stones, 1.5m high, which is most probably the 'tumulus' referred to by Tait. It measures 13.0m N-S by 11.0m transversely and now appears almost square on plan. No trace of a cist could be found. Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R B) 18 February 1966.
(NC 7168 0281) Cairn (NR) (site of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1971)
The alleged cairn has been destroyed.
Visited by OS (J M) 19 May 1981.
