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<< Our Photo Pages >> Fiscary A (Farr) - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Sutherland

Submitted by Anne T on Monday, 23 October 2017  Page Views: 1667

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Fiscary A (Farr) Alternative Name: Carn Chaoile; Henshall SUT 29; Swordly
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.488 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Sutherland Type: Chambered Cairn
 Nearest Village: Farr
Map Ref: NC7310262629
Latitude: 58.533208N  Longitude: 4.181215W
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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Fiscary A (Farr)
Fiscary A (Farr) submitted by markj99 : Fiscary A (Farr) Chambered Cairn showing its robbed out centre axis. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Cairn in Sutherland

Canmore ID 6445 records both Fiscary A and Fiscary B cairns, which are immediately next to each other, A being the northernmost cairn and B the southern. Each cairn is different, so they are recorded here as two separate sites.

A, the northernmost, and chambered, cairn, is described by Canmore as: "'an Orkney-Cromarty type, round cairn with a Camster type tripartite chamber (Henshall 1963), and was excavated by Kerr in 1891. It is free of vegetation and measures 16.0m in diameter and 1.5m high. The centre is mutilated but it is still possible to identify the tops of eight upright slabs of the chamber, which was entered from the WSW. the entrance passage has collapsed ... The N end of 'A' has traces of three faced steps within the cairn material and parallel with the outer edge of the cairn ... Both cairns (A and B) would appear to have been enclosed within a large trapezoidal cairn."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page on this cairn, which it refers to as Fiscary 1 - see their entry for Fiscary (1), Farr, Sutherland. The TNA page has directions for finding the site together with photographs, a brief archaeology & history, a ground plan and local folklore.

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Fiscary A (Farr)
Fiscary A (Farr) submitted by markj99 : A central cavity in Fiscary A (Farr) Chambered Cairn. It may be a chamber or a collapsed passage. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Fiscary A (Farr)
Fiscary A (Farr) submitted by markj99 : Fiscary A (Farr) Chambered Cairn W arc left intact. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NC7262 : Swordly Loch by David Bremner
by David Bremner
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NC7262 : Sheep on hill ground at Farr by Alan Reid
by Alan Reid
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NC7362 : Entering Bettyhill by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
©2022(licence)
NC7262 : EU sign among others by Rob Purvis
by Rob Purvis
©2019(licence)
NC7262 : Entering Bettyhill by N Chadwick
by N Chadwick
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Re: Fiscary A (Farr) by markj99 on Saturday, 17 October 2020
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After passing through Bettyhill there is a L turn to Crask, Clerkhill, Farr and Swordly. Ignore this turn, continue on the NC500 for another 250 yards to park in the Bettyhill Landfill Site junction on the R. Fiscary cairn lies 300 yards NNE up the slope. Fiscally A & B cairns lie another 250 yards NW. There is a hypothesis in Canmore ID 6445 that Fiscary A & B were different phases of a long cairn..
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