Skelpick Burn
Cairnfield (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skelpick Burn
Classification Cairnfield (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6214
Site Number NC75NW 13
NGR NC 732 554
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC75NW 13 732 554.
(NC 732 554) Tumuli (NR)
OS 6"map, Sutherland, 1st ed., (1873)
Small cairns of stones raised over the dead of a battle with Danish invaders.
Name Book 1873.
Field clearance heaps and an old turf field bank. No hut circles are visible. The cleared area measures approximately 300m. NW-SE by 100m and lies on flat moorland.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; Visited by OS (J L D) 2 May 1960.
This area of field clearance is an described; no measurable plots can
be identified.
Visited by OS (J B) 1 August 1977.
