Ardvannie 2

Nearest town:
Tain (11km E)
OS reference:
NH6915987899
OS sheet:
21
Latitude:
57° 51' 41.98 N
Longitude:
4° 12' 19.8 W
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Ardvannie 2

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jul 30, 2025

This is a cracking area for prehistory and we continued on our way, after Dun Alascaig, to the large burial cairn at Ardvannie. We headed east (A861) and took the first first track heading north after the Ardvannie Chamber Cairn. We’d accidentally walk past this later. We parked at the first corner, permission was given by the smartly dressed occupant of the railway house at the end of the road.

Continuing north east we crossed the railway line, past what looked like a graveyard for old cars along with a gradually falling down warehouse, followed what looked like a hedge (more like a bramble death trap) downhill into a clearing and kept going until we reached a wood along with a start of a climb. At the top of this climb sits the Ardvannie Burial Cairn.

The views are well worth the visit. Magnificent scenery of the Dornoch Firth and further north as well as a magnificent cairn. As usual a fair amount of ‘houking’ to the centre. It sits at almost 16m wide and is over 2m high with no signs of a kerb. Luckily it seems to survived a lot of the stone robbing suffered by nearby sites.

Great site, now for an unusual way back to the transport.

Visited 31/03/2025.

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