Monument record MHG8645 - Carn A' Chait
Summary
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 7168 8051 (70m by 67m) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH78SW |
| Geographical Area | ROSS AND CROMARTY |
| Old County | ROSS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | TAIN |
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Full Description
FE Management Plan reveived 30/03/01.
J Aitken : 30/03/01.
This is a circular cairn of bare rubble stone 16m diameter and with a max height of 1.5m. There is no sign of any chamber or cist. Apart from its circularity there is nothing visible to suggest that it had been a broch. There is no evidence of a wall nor of any of the stone being dressed, though position of cairn at head of the strath overlooking an area of cultivated land is, perhaps, not unsuitable for a broch.
Near the centre of the cairn an erect stone inscribed "C" on the West and "T" on the East is a boundary marker.
Visited by OS (R D L) 8 May 1963.
Not listed as broch or comparable structure.
A Graham 1949.
Carn a' Chait (NR) Supposed site of Pictish Tower (NR)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1909)
'A large cairn situated on parish boundary ... The Rev J M Joass states that cairn is supposed to mark the site of a Pictish Tower. Further that the name is not opposed to this view for almost all the Pictish Towers I know have passed into the state of cairns and are generally so called in the locality although their proper name Dun still clings to some.
The Parish boundary was probably adjusted to it as an old and well known land-mark'
Name Book 1874.
There is a broch the hill-track from Redburn (NH 72 83) to Scotsburn Road (NH 72 75)
J Anderson 1873.
Sources/Archives (5)
- --- SHG1281 Text/Publication/Article: Anderson, J. 1873. ''Notice of the excavation of the brochs of Yarhouse, Brounaben, Bowermadden, Old Stirkake, and Dunbeath in Caithness; with remarks on the period of the brochs, and an appendix, containing a collected list of the brochs of Scotland, and early notices of m. Archaeol Scot. 131-98. 193.
- --- SHG1531 Text/Publication/Article: Graham, A. 1949. 'Some observations on the brochs', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 81 1946-7, p.48-99. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 48-99. 95-6.
- --- SHG25203 Text/Report/Management Plan: Forestry Commission & Historic Scotland. 2011. Carn a Chait, Cairn. Digital (scanned as PDF).
- --- SHG2670 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region. . 10, No. 40.
- --- SHG3340 Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 10, 66.
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Record last edited
Mar 15 2011 11:36AM
