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Brahan Wood
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Brahan Wood
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Brahan Castle Policies
Canmore ID 12792
Site Number NH55NW 2
NGR NH 50465 55215
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12792
- Council Highland
- Parish Urray (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH55NW 2 5045 5521
(NH 50455521) Stone Circle (OE)
(Remains of)
OS 6"map, 1938
Megalithic remains consisting of several stones, only three of which are erect, about 2ft 6ns high.
Name Book 1876
No trace of this stone circle could be found. A much robbed chambered cairn situated on a terrace on the steep S. slopes of Brahan Wood. The cairn material has been removed and its perimeter cannot now be traced. Eleven large slabs are to be seen, eight of which are in situ, suggesting an Orkney/Cromarty round cairn with two polygonal chambers. The orientation is uncertain
Visited by OS (R D), 20 January 1965
No change.
Visited by RCAMS (JRS), March 1989.
Field Visit (28 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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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 (September 1978)
Brahan Wood * NH 504 552 NH 55 NW 2
This Orkney-Cromarty Cairn is situated in a forest clearing and occupies the level top of a slight spur. All that now remains are parts of a two-compartment chamber measuring 7.8m from N to S, by 2.6m transversely. The spur is covered by dense vegetation and no cairn material is visible.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
(Name Book, Ross-shire, no. 6, p. 63).
