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Craggan Soiller

Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible), Spearhead (Bronze)

Site Name Craggan Soiller

Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible), Spearhead (Bronze)

Canmore ID 6419

Site Number NC76SW 23

NGR NC 726 626

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Farr
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC76SW 23 726 626.

A Late Bronze Age spearhead found about 1897 by Patrick MacKay, Swordly, 'in the soil beneath a prostrate stone, one of the circle, at Craggan Soiller, to the south of Farr township' (Mackay 1909). It is preserved in Dunrobin Museum.

A Mackay 1909; J M Coles 1962.

The hill centred at NC 726 626 is locally known as Craggan Soiller, but there is no knowledge of a stone circle.

Visited by OS (A A) 15 July 1971.

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