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Creag Nan Caorach
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Creag Nan Caorach
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kinbrace
Canmore ID 6736
Site Number NC83SE 3
NGR NC 8726 3056
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6736
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC83SE 3 8726 3056.
(NC 8726 3056) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1964)
A cairn, previously noted (RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909), sited on a change of slope, high up in a SW-facing hillside, overlooking a field system associated with hut-circles. (See NC83SE 2 ). It is 8.0m diameter by 0.7m high. The cairn reduces from piled bare stone in the centre to a low heather-covered, but fairly well-defined, peripheral extent. There is no trace of a chamber or cist.
Visited by OS (J M) 26 January 1977 and (E G C) 22 May 1961.
Scheduled with NC83SE 1 and NC83SE 4 as 'four prehistoric burial cairns on the SW flank of Creag nan Caorach.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 10 December 2001.
