Cnoc An Ratha
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cnoc An Ratha
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Brawlbin
Canmore ID 7623
Site Number ND05NE 1
NGR ND 0540 5828
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7623
- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND05NE 1 0540 5828.
(ND 0540 5824) Mound (NR)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
Situated a little distance E of Sithean Dubh and N of Cnoc an Rath are the remains of a 'Pict's House', about 3ft high. Whether part of it has been taken away is not known.
Name Book 1873.
ND 0540 5828. A road quarry now occupies the site of the mound. Only a fragment of the E side of the mound remains, about 1m high; near its outer edge is a solitary upright stone, 0.3m high. The quarry excavations reveal the composition of the mound to have been of loose stones. There seems little doubt that this is the site of a cairn, which has measured about 16m in diameter.
Visited by OS (J L D) 10 April 1962.
(ND 0540 5828) Cairn (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, (1963)
The fragmentary remains of a cairn as described by previous OS surveyor (J L D). The solitary upright stone in the east margin of the cairn is in fact a slab, 0.5m high 0.7m wide and 0.2m thick, and orientated NNE-SSW. It is somewhat loose and unlikely to be the remains of a passage/chamber or a cist.
Re-surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 15 September 1981.
