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MHG659364 - Possible burial cairn - Ard Neackie

Summary

A 7 m diameter and stands up to 1.5 m high with a slight, 0.7 m in diameter, oval depression on the top.

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A rapid coastal zone assessment survey was conducted by GUARD in the Autumn of 1997 commissioned by Historic Scotland from the Viking and Early Settlement Archaeological Research Project based at the University of Glasgow.

Located on the north end of the tombola, this feature has a 7 m diameter and stands up to 1.5 m high. There is a slight, 0.7 m in diameter, oval depression on the top. This mound is largely grassed over although there is some stone evident on the surface. This may be a cairn and is ideally located to be a funerary monument, being set above a raised beach on a very visible spur of land. To the west of this mound is a very small and less grass-covered clearance-cairn.

Note: the authors conclude "Alternatively this may be the monument described in the NMRS (NC 45 NW 15) as being `an isolated, kiln now ruinous' by OS after a site visit in 1978. This site has clearly been given the wrong grid-reference as there is nothing at that point (NC 4476 59892)." However, a circular feature is visible on the 2023 AP at that site. (see MHG11912) <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2020 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Location

Grid reference	Centred NC 4470 5981 (11m by 11m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC45NW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	DURNESS

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