Glenurquhart
Long Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Glenurquhart
Classification Long Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 14527
Site Number NH76SW 13
NGR NH 73351 62456
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14527
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromarty
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH76SW 13 7334 6245.
At NH 7334 6245, on a prominent ridge, and 16.0m west of Grey Cairn, there is a wedge-shaped, heather-covered, long cairn of earth and stone. Oriented ENE - WSW, it measures 20.5m in length, 12.0m wide and 1.0m high at its east end, and 9.0m wide and 0.7m high at the west end.
Apart from burrowing by rabbits, it is in good condition.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 21 January 1966.
No change to previous report.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 10 January 1978.
Scheduled with NH76SW 2.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated May 1989.
Field Visit (24 August 1943)
Grey Cairn, Glenurquhart
Due W of Glenurquhart farm, on the very highest point of the wide ridge that, running NE, terminates in the South Sutor, stands a cairn of naked stones rising some 8ft above the heather-clad moor but itself surmounted by a trig. survey station. The cairn has clearly been disturbed but perhaps only superficially. No chamber or cist is exposed. The naked pile forms an irregular figure about 80ft NE to SW by 60ft, but the spread of stones, including some that look rather like peristalith supports, extends over a space some 95ft by 75ft among the deep heather.
65ft E of the Grey Cairn is a low stony mound* about 60ft long by 33ft wide N to S. The whole is overgrown with peat and heather and over 3ft high but is distinctly stony.
Visited by RCAHMS (VGC) 24 August 1943
*this is almost certainly a reference to NH76SW 13, which lies about 65 ft (20m) to the west (GG, 9/12/21).
Field Visit (July 1979)
Glenurquhart 1 NH 733 624 NH76SW 13
This long cairn stands 16m W of the cairn (NH76SW 2); it measures 20.5m from ENE to WSE by 12m t the broader (ENE) end, where it is still up to 1m high.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1979
(MS notes, RCAMS Emergency Surveys)
Measured Survey (17 April 1980)
The cairn and long cairn at Glenurquhart were surveyed by plane-table at a scale of 1:250.
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS, AL, RM), 17 April 1980.
