Monument record MHG3623 - Buaile Chomhnard

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 6214 3321 (226m by 264m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH63SW
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish DORES
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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NH63SW 32 621 332.

(NH 6206 3312 & NH 6207 3314) Cairns (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905)

These are both 5.0m in diameter and 0.5m high and consist of bare stone rubble. Apart from their being on top of a slight ridge and not covered with heather they are not unlike the many stone clearance mounds to be found in this area, and more so from the fact that they lie in an area of former cultivation. Both cairns show evidence of excavation.
Visited by OS (R D L) 3 September 1963.

Two mounds of bare rubble stones as described by Loader (OS field surveyor), which are similar to the mounds about 250.0m to the SW (NH63SW 39), and to others in the area (NH63SW 23 & NH63NW 19) one of which is sited within a hut and is therefore later. They are probably stone clearance heaps.
In the vicinity of the mounds centred NH 621 332 is an area of stone clearance heaps, with occasional lynchets and field walls which are almost certainly of IA period, though no huts or distinct cultivation plots are discernible.
Visited by OS (N K B) 6 Feburary 1970.

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Record last edited

May 18 2016 12:22PM

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