Creag Dhomhainn
Cist (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible), Quarry (Period Unknown), Ring Cairn(S) (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Site Name Creag Dhomhainn
Classification Cist (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible), Quarry (Period Unknown), Ring Cairn(S) (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 12708
Site Number NH54SE 12
NGR NH 5981 4398
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12708
- Council Highland
- Parish Kirkhill
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH54SE 12 5981 4398.
On the north side of the mossy flat to the north of 'Blar-nam-Feinne' there are three mounds, similar to the last (NH54SE 13). One of them has been entirely hollowed out, and has now the appearance of a circular pit, measuring 17 feet in diameter and 2 1/2 feet deep. Thirty eight yards to the south east of this one, there is a mound 10 feet in diameter. About 50 yards to the south-west of the first mentioned one, one contains the remains of a cist, with four or perhaps five stones still in position. The cist is on the outer side of the mound which measures 6-7 yards in diameter.
T Wallace 1886
From Wallace's description these cairns are apparently Clava-type.
A S Henshall 1963
At NH 5981 4398 is a circular quarry pit answering to Wallace's description. The mound 38 yards SE is natural, but no trace could be found of his alleged cist 50 yards to the SW. The area is occupied by cultivation associated with depop. and there are several associated clearance heaps in the vicinity but no trace of Clava cairns in an area entirely unsuitable.
Visited by OS (A A) 5 May 1970
Field Visit (15 August 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (January 1978)
Altnacardich 2 (INV 4)
Nothing can now be seen of what may have been three Clava cairns noted by Wallace in 1886.
RCAHMS 1979, visited January 1978
(Wallace, 1886, 350; Henshall, 1963-72, i, 359)
