Kinbrace Burn
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Kinbrace Burn
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 6657
Site Number NC82NE 29
NGR NC 8753 2828
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6657
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Field Visit (3 February 1976)
NC82NE 29 8753 2828
See also NC82NE 28.
At NC 8753 2828 on the edge of the field system of NC82NE 28 lies a burnt mound, which measures 12.0 m E-W by 11.0 m and 0.8 m high. There is a depression in the centre with a gap in the SE arc. The E side is truncated by a drainage ditch; here the contents of small burnt friable stones are exposed. A spring rises near the mound, and a modern well has been built into its S side.
Surveyed at 1/10,000
Visited by OS (J B) 3 December 1976
Field Visit (10 March 1991)
This burnt mound, which is situated on gently sloping ground to the S of the Kinbrace Burn, measures 11.2m in diameter and 1.2m in height. There is a central depression, 3m by 1.5m across and 0.5m in depth, which opens out to the SE. A spring to the SE has been tapped and the SE edge of the mound has been disturbed revealing densely-packed, cracked stones set in a matrix of black soil and charcoal.
(KILD91 68)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 10 March 1991.
