MHG11050 - Chambered Cairn, Skail
Summary
No summary available.
Type and Period (1)
- CHAMBERED CAIRN (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2401 BC)
Protected Status
Full Description
NC74NW 4 7129 4690.
(NC 7129 4690) Chambered Cairns (NR) OS 6"map, (1962)
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Amended Scheduling Detials - Letter received from HS, dated 31/01/03. See assoc. docs. File.
J Aitken : 20/02/03
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An Orkney - Cromarty type round cairn, with a polygonal chamber, now almost denuded of cairn material. The cairn has had a diameter of about 66 feet, but has been so heavily robbed that the only appreciable amount of cairn material left occurs against east side of the chamber, where it is about 4 feet high. The result is that the upright construction stones of the chamber are now exposed to almost their full height, the highest being 5 feet 8 inches tall. Walling of horizontally laid slabs occurs between the slabs. The chamber has been entered from the NE but there is now no sign of the passage.
A steatite cup with a side handle which was said to be in Dunrobin Museum in 1909 is alleged to have come from this site, but is presumably unconnected with the use of the tomb. It could not be found in 1957. An unrecorded excavation by a shooting tenant took place some years before 1909.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; A S Henshall 1963.
The cairn is as described. Robbing has left only a peripheral rim and the side-slabs of the chamber.
Visited by OS (J L D) 6 May 1960.
No change to previous field report.
Revised at 1/10,000. Visited by OS (J B) 21 July 1977.
Sources/Archives (25)
- --- SHG12413 Image/Photograph(s): Strathnaver :. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG12414 Image/Photograph(s): Strathnaver :. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17728 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17729 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17730 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17731 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17732 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17739 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17740 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17741 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17742 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17743 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17768 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17769 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17770 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17771 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17772 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17773 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17774 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG17775 Image/Photograph(s): Skail. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG2657 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1911. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Second report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Sutherland. . 80, No. 233.
- --- SHG357 Text/Publication/Monograph: Henshall, A S. 1963. The chambered tombs of Scotland, Volume 1. 328, SUT 52; plan.
- --- SHG9839 Image/Photograph(s): Ch. Cairn, Skail, Strathnaver. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG9842 Image/Photograph(s): Ch Cairn, Skail, Strathnaver. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
- --- SHG9845 Image/Photograph(s): Ch.Cairn, Skail, Strathnaver. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NC 7128 4690 (80m by 80m) (2 map features) |
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| Map sheet | NC74NW |
| Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
| Civil Parish | FARR |
Finds (1)
- CUP (Undated)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Investigations/Events (0)
External Links (2)
- http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM1776 (Online designation description (Historic Environment Scotland))
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/6187 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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