Clais Charnach
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Clais Charnach
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 71084
Site Number NC27SE 7
NGR NC 2693 7339
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71084
- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC27SE 7 2693 7339
NC 269 734. Stone, possibly artificially shaped.
Letter from Miss J Booth to Mrs M E C Stewart, 29 August 1978.
Corrected to NC 2693 7339. Naturally placed earthfast slab in a slope, highlighted by soil erosion.
Visited by OS (JM), 23 April 1980.
NC 26930 73390. The SMR has listed for this site a natural slab of stone highlighted by soil erosion. It was deemed to be natural and therefore was of no archaeological significance.
R Street 2001.
Reference (1 January 1979 - 31 July 1979)
Letter written by Miss J Booth to Dr Margaret EC Stewart, dated 29 August 1979.
NC 269 734. Stone, possibly artificially shaped.
Letter from Miss J Booth to Mrs M E C Stewart, 29 August 1978.
Field Visit (23 April 1980)
Field visit by Ordnance Survey.
Field Visit (2008)
Originally identified by Miss J Booth as a possibly artificially shaped stone in 1978, this large granite block was not identified in 1980 by the Ordnance Survey, who, instead, noted a nearby boulder that had been exposed by erosion. The irregular shape and the ragged edge of Miss Booth’s boulder is the result of large fragments of it having been prized off using wedges. The stone is the most obvious example of several quarried blocks in the vicinity, which were most likely worked when the original slipway and store house (NC27SE 4) were built in 1827 or when the slipway was rebuilt in 1863.
(CWTC08 432)
Visited by RCAHMS (AL, IP), 7 August 2008.
