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Creag Leathan
Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Creag Leathan
Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 7384
Site Number NC96SE 6
NGR NC 9845 6336
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7384
- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
NC96SE 6 9845 6336.
(NC 9846 6336) Mound (NR)
OS 6"map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
This probable broch was originally about 66ft in diameter. Much of the stone has been removed, and all details obliterated.
RCAHMS 1911.
A considerably mutilated cairn 1.8m high. Within the E segment there are four small hollows and the remains of a relatively modern rectangular building. Around the cairn are the remains of an enclosing wall, and attached to this are vague traces of two possible hut circles to the N and S of the cairn, each being 7.0m in diameter.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 23 November 1964.
(NC 9845 6336) Cairn (NR) Mound (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963); OS 25"map, (1966)
In open moorland is an amorphous stony mound overgrown with turf and bracken. It measures about 27.0m across and 1.8m high, but the surface is disturbed with later (or perhaps in some cases, contemporary) structures. The content where exposed is of rubble and larger stones, but these conform to no known pattern and most, if not all, are not in situ. The date and purpose of the mound remain uncertain. Had it been a broch some wall faces should have been visible considering the amount of material surviving. It may be a mutilated cairn, but in respect of size and content the closest parallel is to the mounds at Shurrery (ND05NW 11 and ND05NW 12 ), which may be homesteads.
Visited by OS (N K B) 6 November 1981.
