Millnafua Bridge
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Millnafua Bridge
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Rhemusaig; Remusaig
Canmore ID 84311
Site Number NC70SW 51
NGR NC 7318 0265
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/84311
- Council Highland
- Parish Rogart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
Field Visit (5 June 1995)
NC70SW 51 7318 0265
This extensively-robbed chambered cairn is situated on the crest of a low ridge to the W of the Millnafua Bridge. The cairn comprises a mound of stones 0.6m in height and measures 8.3m from NW to SE by 7.5m transversely, but may originally have been as much as 16.5m in diameter (Henshall and Ritchie 1995). A displaced lintel on the SE edge of the stony mound marks the position of the entrance passage, the line of which is continued by two paired portals, the NW of which lie on the SE side of what may have been the ante-chamber. The ante-chamber measures about 1.5m from NW to SE by at least 1m transversely, with the position of the chamber indicated by a hollow in the cairn to the NW.
(ROG95 516)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 5 June 1995
A Henshall and JNG Ritchie 1995
Measured Survey (7 June 1995)
RCAHMS surveyed the chambered cairn at Millnafua Bridge with plane-table and alidade on 7 June 1995 at a scale of 1:100. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:200.
