MHG10100 - Possible Burial Cairn - Achaidh

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Type and Period (1)

  • BURIAL CAIRN? (Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC? to 551 BC?)

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NH69SE 1 6713 9114.
(NH 6710 9112) Cairn (NR) OS 1:10,000 map, (1971)

An elliptical cairn measuring 35ft WNW-ESE by 24ft transversely and only a foot or two in height. It is almost level on top and neither cist nor chamber is apparent; nor is it certain that its character is sepulchral. RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

The remains of possible cairn in area of cleared woodland. It is a much-robbed mound of bare stones barely 0.7m maximum height and c12.5m diameter, stones on S and E sides being mostly cleared. As stated by RCAHMS, no trace of cist or chamber. Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (W D J) 25 May 1963.

Though mutilated, shape and size of this feature, its prominent position on ridge and size and quality of stones visible in its construction leave little doubt that it is a burial cairn, as described by previous investigator.
Resurveyed at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (NKB) 19 9 1980.

A substantial stone cairn, as described in NMRS. Assumed by earlier investigators to be a burial cairn. The site is currently in an area of deep heather and shows no signs of recent disturbance. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2009 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 6712 9115 (14m by 14m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NH69SE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish CREICH

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