Skelpick
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skelpick
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6212
Site Number NC75NW 11
NGR NC 7247 5687
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC75NW 11 7247 5687.
(NC 7247 5687) Cairn (NR)
OS 6"map, (1964)
A large, well-preserved, round cairn on a slight knoll amid field clearance (NC75NW 8), and measuring 17.5m in diameter and 3m high. Although it has been disturbed there is no evidence of a cist, chamber or kerb but it appears to have been revetted by a rubble wall (c/f NC76SW 6).
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; Visited by OS (J L D) 2 May 1960.
This cairn is generally as described. A slab, 1.4m by 0.8m by 0.3m lying just E of centre may have formed part of a cist or chamber. The revetting 'rubble wall' is not apparent.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 19 September 1977.
