Blar A' Choire
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Blar A' Choire
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 7636
Site Number ND05NE 20
NGR ND 0720 5553
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Halkirk
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND05NE 20 0720 5553.
(ND 0720 5554) Mound (NR)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
This cairn has a diameter of about 40ft and a height of about 4ft. On the top, near the centre, a cist lying NE- SW has been exposed; it is 3ft 8ins in length by 1ft 6ins in breadth. The slabs forming one end and one side alone remain. At the edge of the cairn towards the S, a thin slab, set upwards, 2ft 6ins in breadth, protrudes through the turf to a height of 1ft 3ins; its significance is not apparent.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
The remains of this cairn are as described by the RCAHMS.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 12 February 1965.
(ND 0720 5553) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1963)
A cairn 8.5m diameter and, in the NE half, 0.7m high; the cist is as described by the RCAHMS. The slab noted in the S edge of the cairn is a kerb-stone and there are another two, marginally displaced, in the W arc.
Visited by OS (JM) 3 July 1981.
Though recorded by Mercer as a chambered cairn this is a round cairn with a cist.
R J Mercer 1985; J L Davidson and A S Henshall 1991.