Hill Of Shebster
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hill Of Shebster
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 7938
Site Number ND06SW 12
NGR ND 0135 6441
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND06SW 12 0135 6441.
(ND 013 644) There are the foundations of an oval or circular construction about 40ft in diameter, some 80 yards W of the mound described on ND06SW 6. There are a number of circular depressions about 5ft in diameter in its interior, but the whole is overgrown with thick turf.
RCAHMS 1911.
All that can be seen at ND 0135 6441, about 110m W of ND06SW 6, are three heather-covered circular cells, some 5.0m in diameter and 0.3m in height, which are contained within the trace of the perimeter of a probable cairn.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 11 November 1964.
(ND 0135 6441) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
The remains of a low turf and heather-covered cairn about 13.5m in diameter and 0.7m high. The 'cells' suggested by the previous field investigator are possibly the result of random disturbance.
Visited by OS (J B) 11 September 1981.
Watching Brief (September 1998)
Archaeological watching brief occasioned by Dounreay - Thurso 132kv Line Improvements was carried out by James B Kenworthy.
