MHG9415 - Creag Nan Caorach

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Type and Period (1)

CAIRN (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2401 BC)

Protected Status

Scheduled Monument 1783: Creag nan Caorach, four cairns SE of Kinbrace

Full Description

NC83SE 3 8726 3056.

(NC87263056) Cairn (NR)
OS 6"map, (1964)

A cairn, previously noted (RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909), sited on a change of slope, high up in a SW-facing hillside, overlooking a field system associated with hut-circles. (See NC 83 SE 2 ). It is 8.0m diameter by 0.7m high. The cairn reduces from piled bare stone in the centre to a low heather-covered, but fairly well-defined, peripheral extent. There is no trace of a chamber or cist.
Visited by OS (J M) 26 January 1977 and (E G C) 22 May 1961

Sources/Archives (1)

--- 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. . 128, No. 367.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 8726 3055 (14m by 14m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC83SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	KILDONAN

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http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM1783 (Online designation description (Historic Environment Scotland))
https://canmore.org.uk/site/6736 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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