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Knockoee, Torran Reitheach

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Knockoee, Torran Reitheach

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 8527

Site Number ND16SE 6

NGR ND 1630 6013

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Bower
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND16SE 6 1630 6013.

(ND 1630 6013) Torran Reitheach (NR) (Cairn) (NR) Human Remains and Urns found (NAT)

OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)

Torran Reitheach is a ploughed-down mound about 3ft high and about 30ft in diameter, in which human remains and an urn were found about 1866-7. It is probably a cairn.

Name Book 1872; RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.

Torran Reitheach, a probable cairn, set on a slight ridge in an undulating field, is a grass-covered mound 0.5m high and 10.0m in diameter.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 5 November 1965.

(ND 1630 6013) Torran Reitheach (NR)

OS 6" map, (1970)

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (J M) 29 October 1981.

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