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Cuag

Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)

Site Name Cuag

Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)

Alternative Name(s) Houstry

Canmore ID 8125

Site Number ND13SE 1

NGR ND 1531 3314

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Latheron
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND13SE 1 1531 3314.

(ND 1531 3314) Chambered Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1979.

An Orkney-Cromarty, Camster type, round chambered cairn. A considerably robbed cairn with a N-S axis through the main chamber of 55ft by about 70ft across it. It is free of vegetation but its edge is indistinct. The chamber, represented by the tops of five slabs, was probably entered by a passage from the S edge of the cairn.

RCAHMS 1911; A S Henshall 1963.

A 'heel-shaped' chambered cairn, mainly as described by Henshall (1963). It is defined in the S by a straight kerb of drystone walling, three courses high and about 10 m long. The kerb is obscured by tumble elsewhere. The entrance is visible as a break just off centre in the S kerb.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 11 March 1968.

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (J M) 19 October 1982.

Activities

Field Visit (August 1997)

This cairn is as described by Davidson and Henshall (1991) and its position was resurveyed for the OS 1:2500 revision programme.

Visited by RCAHMS (SH) August 1997

Field Visit (July 2009)

ND 150 333 (centred on) A desktop and walkover survey were undertaken for an area of proposed new forestry of 30ha in July 2009. Work revealed no archaeological sites, except the two chambered cairns (ND13SE 1 and 25).

Report: HSMR and RCAHMS

Funder: UPM Tilhill

Stuart Farrell

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