Achcoillenaborgie
Field System (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Achcoillenaborgie
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6243
Site Number NC75NW 4
NGR NC 7164 5890
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6243
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC75NW 4 7164 5890.
(NC 7160 5900) Tumuli (NR) (Eight shown)
OS 6"map, Sutherland, 1st ed., (1873)
Small cairns in which are interred human remains.
Name Book 1873.
Along the slopes of the shelving hillside are small tumuli, about 10 feet in diameter and 5 feet high, composed of earth and stones, which yield an unctuous substance at the centre when excavated showing that the slope was used as a prehistoric cemetery.
A Mackay 1914
A minor field system covering an area some 250m N-S by 100m E-W and consisting of stone clearance heaps and lynchets with fields measuring between 30m by 15m and 20m by 10m.
Visited by OS (A A) 20 July 1971.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (J B) 20 July 1977.
