Monument record MHG10079 - Drumliah

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 6065 9297 (14m by 14m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH69SW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish CREICH

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NH69SW 57 6065 9298.

NH 605 929. A mound of stones about 25 to 30ft across and about 4ft high. Possibly a cairn.
Information contained in letter from Miss S Reid, An Sithean, Bonar Bridge, to OS 19 September 1982.

At NH 6065 9298, on a sloping shelf on a SW-facing wooded hillside, is an irregularly-shaped pile of bare rubble stones, about 11m across and 1.4m high. It is situated in the angle of two consumption dykes which appear to be part of a larger system of post-medieval /early modern fields; the dykes are of similar-sized stones to the mound and merge with it at the NW and NE tangents, and these sides of the mound are flattened. There is no trace of any kerb stones.
There are a number of small clearance heaps in the vicinity, and the mound may be one of these, contemporary with the consumption dykes, but if so, it is unusually large. Alternatively, it may be a cairn utilised in the pattern of fields, onto which stones have been added.
Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (N K B) 5 November 1982.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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