Tormsdale
Stone Row (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Tormsdale
Classification Stone Row (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Dalemore
Canmore ID 8242
Site Number ND14NW 16
NGR ND 1483 4974
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8242
- Council Highland
- Parish Halkirk
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND14NW 16 1483 4974.
At ND 1483 4974, on a gentle, W-facing slope in degraded pasture, is a group of approximately ten surviving stone rows aligned from N-S around the WNW-ESE, and comprising at least 111 stones, of which the large majority just protrude or are buried closed to the surface. The largest stone is 0.8 by 0.2 by 0.6m high. The rows have been obscured in several places by later activity; peat and turf-cutting has encroached on the N side, exposing some stones but undoubtedly causing the removal of others; an amorphous hummock which appears to be composed entirely of peat overlies the rows to an unknown extent in the NW, and an apparent gap in the row system in the S has possibly been caused by early-modern cultivation which has taken place.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 15 March 1982.