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Latitude: 57.4976 / 57°29'51"N
Longitude: -4.3208 / 4°19'14"W
OS Eastings: 261016
OS Northings: 847643
OS Grid: NH610476
Mapcode National: GBR H8PX.CJG
Mapcode Global: WH3F3.LTQ3
Entry Name: Coul Point, crannog 1030m SW of
Scheduled Date: 7 December 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7817
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: crannog
Location: Killearnan
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Dingwall and Seaforth
Traditional County: Ross-shire
The monument comprises the remains of a prehistoric crannog surviving as a stone cairn on intertidal mudflats.
The monument is a low oval cairn of stones which is fully submerged at high tide. No timbers in the body of the cairn have been noted, but these may survive as is the case on the other three intertidal crannogs so far known in the Beauly Firth.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the crannog and an area around it in which traces of associated materials may be expected to survive. It is circular in shape and 60m in diameter and is marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric life. The site is waterlogged and should preserve organic materials which relate to the diets and lives of the people who built and used the site.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NH 64 NW 41.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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