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Loch Of Yarrows
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loch Of Yarrows
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) South Yarrows
Canmore ID 9055
Site Number ND34SW 48
NGR ND 31225 43367
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 48 31225 43367.
The remains of a cairn, which has been opened, and which contained a central cist, lie about 130 yds SW of the cairn ND34SW 47.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
At ND 3121 4336 on a shelf on a W-facing slope, the cairn measures 8.5m in diameter and is 0.6m high. A trench has been cut through the centre from E to W and is partly filled with debris. There is no sign of the cist, though there are several stone slabs lying about which could have formed one.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (I S S) 14 March 1972.
(ND 3121 4336) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
This is probably the cairn mentioned by Anderson as having a very long cist and as being 'opened long ago by idlers out of mere curiosity' when it was found to contain a skeleton.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
J Anderson 1870.
This heather-grown cairn, which is roughly circular on plan and measures about 6.5m in diameter by 0.6m in height, is situated on a W-facing terrace in heather moorland immediately E of Loch of Yarrows. A trench, now largely obscured by rank heather and partly filled with loose stones and boulders, has been cut through the centre of the cairn from E to W.
(YARROWS04 04)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 15 June 2004
