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Oulmsdale Burn
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Oulmsdale Burn
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Kilearnan Hill
Canmore ID 7031
Site Number NC91NE 55
NGR NC 9534 1747
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7031
- Council Highland
- Parish Kildonan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC91NE 55 9534 1747
At NC 9534 1747, in a sheltered position in rising moorland open to the NE, is a burnt mound; it is roughly oval, measuring some 14.0m E-W by 12.0m, with a depression in the E side opening out onto the bed of a dried-up stream. The mound is 1.5m high and the content of heat-stained stones and blackened earth is exposed by erosion and rabbit burrowing.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J M) 12 May 1976.
Field Visit (12 May 1976)
At NC 9534 1747, in a sheltered position in rising moorland open to the NE, is a burnt mound; it is roughly oval, measuring some 14.0m E-W by 12.0m, with a depression in the E side opening out onto the bed of a dried-up stream. The mound is 1.5m high and the content of heat-stained stones and blackened earth is exposed by erosion and rabbit burrowing.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J M) 12 May 1976.
Excavation (1983)
Central Excavation Unit, Excavation and survey 1983.
CEU site 57/2/9 = hut circle OS 30b.
