Carn Liath, Strath
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Carn Liath, Strath
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Flex Hill
Canmore ID 8758
Site Number ND25SE 1
NGR ND 2576 5096
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Watten
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND25SE 1 2576 5096.
(ND 2576 5096) Carn Liath (NR) Human Remains found (NAT) (Detail only shown on OS 6" map, (1960)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
Cairn - "Cairn Liath", Flex Hill: The site of this large cairn, which has measured some 66' in diameter, is some 100 yds E of the road.
RCAHMS 1911.
The remains of Carn Liath consist of a disturbed area of scattered stones c. 24m in diameter, with a maximum height of 1.0m. There is no trace of a cist nor a chamber. On the edge of the cairn in the SE are four large boulders, three prostrate and one upright, possibly from a kerb although there is no further trace of one. Running NW from the NW edge of the cairn for about 22.0m is a line of turf-covered boulders, apparently part of a wall of indeterminate date.
Visited by OS (A A) 22 March 1972.
(ND 2576 5096) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
Carn Liath, the scattered remains of a cairn as described by previous
OS field surveyor.
Visited by OS (N K B) 29 April 1982.
