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An Cnoc Buidhe
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name An Cnoc Buidhe
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Upper Suisgill
Canmore ID 6659
Site Number NC82NE 30
NGR NC 8740 2780
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6659
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Field Visit (3 December 1976)
NC82NE 30 8740 2780
See also NC82NE 27 and 31.
At NC 8740 2780 between two streams is an unusually large, horse-shoe shaped burnt mound. It measures about 15.0 m in diameter and 2.2 m high, containing a central depression 1.8 m deep and open to the SE. Fringing this depression are three earthfast, unburnt stones, which may have retained the mound. A trial excavation into the mound revealed a content of blackened earth and burnt friable stones.
The mound is situated within 100.0 m of cultivation associated with hut circles (See NC82NE 27 and 31).
Surveyed at 1/10,000
Visited by OS (J B) 3 December 1976
Field Visit (10 March 1991)
This C-shaped burnt mound is situated on the N side of a burn and measures 15.5m from NE to SW by 13.8m transversely and up to 2.2m in height. The central holllow measures 3.4m in diameter and is open on the SE. There are at least three boulder revetments around the hollow. A slight bank across the opening appears to be natural. Lifting a sod revealed densely packed cracked stone set in a matrix of black soil and charcoal.
(KILD91 70)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 10 March 1991.
