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Kyle Of Durness

Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Kyle Of Durness

Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 4835

Site Number NC36SE 2

NGR NC 37330 63120

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Durness
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC36SE 2 3733 6312.

(NC 3733 6312) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, (1961)

The remains of a cairn about 50ft in overall diameter whose centre has been removed to form a shelter 14ft in diameter and 3ft to 4ft high. The bottom is covered with large boulders and the sides show no sign of building. There is no indication of a cist or chamber but round the N half of the cairn is a tranch about 10ft wide and 2ft deep. This is not continued round the S half where the ground slopes rapidly away.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

A well-preserved round cairn with central chamber. The cairn measures 13.4m in diameter and 1.6m in maximum height. A central excavation 3.7m in diameter and 1.8m deep reveals a chamber capstone partially buried by fallen stone. The fragmentary remains of a retaining circle can be traced around the E and SE perimeter.

Visited by OS (F D C) 5 Febuary 1957.

At the bottom of the cleared area at the centre of the cairn is a cist, 1.2m by 0.6m by 0.5m deep internally with a displaced capstone about 1.2m in diameter and 20cms thick. Two small intrusions have been made on the SE side of the cairn, one of these are base level.

T C Welsh 1972.

A bare stone cairn 16.0m in diameter and 2.0m high, with a central cist as described by Welsh. There are no indications of a retaining circle. The trench round the N half has a well-defined scarp defining the far side and the ends; the near side is partially obscured by tumble off the cairn.

Revised at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (J M) 16 November 1978.

Activities

Field Visit (3 June 1909)

Cairn, Allt a’ Chaoruinn

About 300 yards NNE of the bridge over the Allt a’Chaoruinn and about 250 ft back from the road, are the remains of a cairn with an external diameter of about 50 ft [15.2m]. The whole of the centre of the cairn, to the extent of 14 ft diameter, has at some time been cleared out, so as to leave walls all round 3 ft to 4 ft high, forming a shelter. The bottom is covered with large boulders, and the sides show no signs of building, the outside appearance being that of a cairn. There is no sign of a cist or chamber in the interior. All round the N half there is a trench about 10 ft wide and 2 ft deep, but this is not continued round the S half, where the ground slopes rapidly away.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 3 June 1909

OS 6” map, (1908) ‘Brough, remains of’

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