Salscraggie Cairn

Nearest town:
Dornoch (35km SW)
OS reference:
ND001180
OS sheet:
17
Latitude:
58° 8' 23.11 N
Longitude:
3° 41' 49.14 W
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Image of Salscraggie Cairn (Cairn) by GLADMAN

Shattered, but still with us in a bit more than spirit. Nice spot, too.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Salscraggie Cairn (Cairn) by GLADMAN

The head of the cairn looking east from the northern flank.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Salscraggie Cairn (Cairn) by GLADMAN

Toward the east it actually looks a bit llike a long cairn..

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Salscraggie Cairn (Cairn) by GLADMAN

Southern flank of the long cairn, looking approx west. The River Helmsdale can just be seen extreme far left.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 21, 2014
Image of Salscraggie Cairn (Cairn) by GLADMAN

The southern flank of what – whether it was previously chambered or not – at 160ft in length is certainly a long cairn. Now, like the nearby western Caen Burn example, reduced to more or less a shell it nevertheless retains echoes of a far, far more substantial monument. Looking approx east.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Salscraggie Cairn

L
Lianachan Apr 5, 2005

Pretty much across the road from one of the easiest approaches to Kilphedir broch. Not much more than a pile of rubble, as it has long since been robbed out, but it’s likely to be a chambered cairn – possibly one with the Caithness “horns”.

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