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Crackaig
Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Crackaig
Classification Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 7106
Site Number NC91SE 8
NGR NC 9686 1128
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7106
- Council Highland
- Parish Loth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC91SE 8 9686 1128.
(NC 9686 1128) Two Bronze Age Cists found 1818 (NAT)
OS 25"map, (1971)
(NC 957 107) A cairn at Crakaig, on the farm of Major Clunes, was opened in the spring of 1818. In one of the two separate cists it contained was found a food vessel 7 1/2 inches high and 6 1/2 inches maximum diameter. The cairn is stated to have been "not more than two miles from the sea and near the Parliamentary road".
The food vessel is in the Dunrobin Museum.
W Daniell 1821; Information from A S Henshall, NAtional Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
In Daniell's illustration (Daniell 1821) the headland in the background is at NC 980 115, the building in the middle distance is at NC 9706 1124 and the 'cairn' is a natural glacial knoll at NC 9686 1128, the cists (shown in situ in the illustration with their ends removed) having been inserted into it.
Site surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 28 February 1968.
No change since report of 28 February 1968.
Visited by OS (J B) 5 April 1976.
Accession no: X.51.
Information from TS of Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum, by A S Henshall.
