Cnoc Bad A' Chlair
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Shieling (Post Medieval)
Site Name Cnoc Bad A' Chlair
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Shieling (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 6143
Site Number NC73SE 3
NGR NC 7546 3270
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6143
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC73SE 3 7546 3270.
(NC 7546 3270) Cairn (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963)
The cairn, found during field investigation (OS [EGC]) is on a sloping site in the lower reaches of a W-facing hillside, just north of hut circle settlement (See NC73SE 4). A setting of four stones, overall length 1.2m, one metre outside the periphery on the downside, the west, is most likely revetting of a base platform. The cairn, 11.0m diameter by 1.3m high and mainly turf-covered, is opened out from the south side towards the centre by a cutting, about 4.5m long and on average 1.5m wide, terminating on a transverse boulder slab 1.2m in length and protruding to 0.2m. Its size and position may indicate a back-slab of an Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn. Several other slabs are exposed but these form no pattern of a chamber.
Visited by OS (EGC) 17 May 1961 and (JM) 9 February 1977.
