Dalrossach
Clearance Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dalrossach
Classification Clearance Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dalrossach Hill
Canmore ID 82129
Site Number NJ41SW 38.12
NGR NJ 414 148
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Towie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ41SW 38.12 414 148
This 10m long, 6m wide sub-rectangular cairn has an open centre. Traces of wall faces are visible beneath the stone piles, and it is suggested that this monument is the badly destroyed remains of a dwelling or small enclosure.
Visited by CFA, October 1992.
CFA 1993; MS/625/32.
(Previously classified as Indeterminate Remains: reclassified as Field Clearance Cairn). These 'indeterminate remains' are no more than a subrectangular clearance cairn of relatively modern date; there is no evidence that the remains ever formed part of an enclosure or dwelling.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 28 April 1997.
Project (October 1992)
Pre-afforestation survey undertaken at Dalrossach Hill, Gordon, Grampian.
T Neighbour 1992.