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Whiteleen, Loch Of Yarrows
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Hut (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Whiteleen, Loch Of Yarrows
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Hut (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 9049
Site Number ND34SW 42
NGR ND 31657 43081
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9049
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 42 31657 43081
(ND 3165 4308) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
An excavated cairn, 40ft in diameter, in which a 4ft 6ins long cist, containing human remains, was found.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
The remains of a cairn, visible as an excavated turf-covered mound of rubble, about 10.5m in diameter and 0.5m maximum height. The ruins of a modern shelter occupy the top which in turn is surmounted by a modern shepherd's cairn. There is no trace of the cist.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (I S S) ,14 March 1972.
This cairn is situated in heather-grown peaty moorland 25m SE of two standing stones (ND34SW 39). The grass-grown mound is oval and measures 7.5m in maximum diameter by 0.5m in height. Its centre appears to be overlain by a rectangular hut or small building containing two compartments. This structure (YARROWS04 365) measures about 7.5m from NW to SE by 5m transversely over walls reduced to grass-grown banks 0.5m in height. There is an entrance into the SE compartment on the NE and the two compartments are linked by a break in the partition. A small modern cairn overlies the wall of the hut on the E.
(YARROWS04 364-5)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 29 June 2004.
