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County of Ross & Cromarty ["& Cromarty" crossed out] Ph of Urquhart & Logie Wester

(List of Names)
Fort
Remains of
Called Carn Mor
Old English

Human Remains found here A.D.1859.

(Various modes)
Carn Mhor [Fort Remains of Called added; also "h" in Mhor crossed out]
Carn Mhor
Carn Mhor

(Authority)
Captain [J. inserted] D. McKenzie
Revd. P. McKenzie
Mr T. Scott

(Situation)
Sheet Plan
89 - 1

(Descriptive Remarks)
Applied to a sort of concentric cairn of stones, much resembling the pictish Towers of Sutherlandshire. but I could get no information about its date or for what purpose it was built. It is known only as the Carn Mhor ["h" crossed out], which translated into English means the large Cairn.

This has evidently been a fort as it is similar in many respects, only larger, to a chain of the same kind of entrenchments which may be found extending from Cromarty by Beauly through Strathglass, it is of a circular form, the inner embankment or parapet being composed of stone and earth, and surrounded by a deep trench. Human bones found in the interior of Intrenchment A.D. 1859.