Cnoc Bad A’ Ghille Dhuibh

Nearest town:
Thurso (45km NE)
OS reference:
NC79033654
OS sheet:
17
Latitude:
58° 18' 3.64 N
Longitude:
4° 3' 51.48 W
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Image of Cnoc Bad A’ Ghille Dhuibh (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Tentative assumption is this is a small clearance cairn associated with the field system.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 12, 2016
Image of Cnoc Bad A’ Ghille Dhuibh (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

In my opinion way too big to be clearance...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 12, 2016
Image of Cnoc Bad A’ Ghille Dhuibh (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Great position for a cairn, to be fair, suggesting the route followed by the ‘modern’ (ha!) road is that humankind have always taken.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 12, 2016

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Cnoc Bad A’ Ghille Dhuibh
Cairn(s)
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 12, 2016

Wasn’t sure about this at the time.... however in retrospect my thoughts concur with the Canmore record:

“...amongst the stone clearance mounds of a field system is a probable cairn. It differs from its neighbours in that it is appreciably larger, 10.0m N-S by 9.0m E-W and 0.8m high, and is of regular rounded form. No cist or kerb is exposed; the mound like the adjacent clearance is completely obscured by peat...

Visited by OS (N K B) 26 April 1977.”

I’ve also included a couple of shots of what would appear to be a small clearance cairn.

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