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Lothbeg Bridge
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Lothbeg Bridge
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 7140
Site Number NC91SW 6
NGR NC 9463 1048
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7140
- Council Highland
- Parish Loth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC91SW 6 9463 1048.
(NC 9463 1048) Chambered Cairn (NR)
OS 25"map, (1969)
The remains of a long cairn which appears to have been about 130ft in length, but is now reduced to about 65ft, the western half having been removed at no distant date. It lies with its longest axis WNW-ESE. At the west end it appears to have been 37ft broad, and at the east end from 65 to 70ft. At 32ft in from the extreme east end is a large lintel stone, fully exposed, supported on two up- right stones 2ft 4ins apart. About 5ft to the east of it a portion of the passage is exposed, 2ft in width. In rear of the lintel the back wall of the chamber, partly formed of a large slab and partly built is just visible among the debris with which the chamber is filled. The length of the chamber is 6ft 10ins. Though excavations have been made in several places, no other chamber is exposed. Towards the E end the cairn is about 12ft high on the side where the ground slopes away.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
Long cairn of the Orkney-Cromarty group. The features of this site were more evident when the RCAHMS visited it in 1909; but the top of the back slab, about 5ft 6ins long, and the two divisional slabs to the E of it are exposed.
In Dunrobin Castle Museum, is a polished stone axe about 7 ins long, oval in cross-section, with a square butt and rounded cutting edge, said to be from this cairn (Accession No 1862-1).
A S Henshall 1963.
This cairn, re-examined in May 1967, may be a round or heel-shaped cairn with a series of enclosures, of later date, built onto the side, which were mistaken for the remains of a badly robbed long cairn.
Information from A S Henshall to OS, 13 July 1967.
The chambered cairn is a mound of bare, boulder rubble, about 20.0m NW-SE by 18.0m and 2.0m high. The only structural feature which can now be identified is the back slab of the chamber; round the south periphery there are some earthfast slabs, which may be of a perimeter kerb. The cairn material, generally, bears signs of excavation disturbance. Immediately outside the cairn in the NW and extending for about 21.0m in a NW direction are the tumbled and overgrown walls of an enclosure of an 18th/19th century abandoned settlement, wrongly supposed by the RCAHMS to be the original bounds of the west end of the cairn.
Revised at 1/10,000 and 1/2500.
Visited by OS (E G C) 5 June 1961 and (J M) 17 February 1976.
