In 1967, the late J X W P Corcoran, then a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Glasgow
excavated a chambered tomb for the Ministry of Public Building and Works. The tomb was situated to
the W of the village of Lairg in central Sutherland on the small hill known as the Ord. It consisted of
a well-preserved bipartite tomb entering in the SE of a large heart-shaped cairn surrounded by a low
platform. The Neolithic levels remained undisturbed and finds from these included a small flint assemblage
and a variety of potsherds representing a wide range of vessel shapes and fabrics, including an Unstan
bowl. An intrusive, early Bronze Age, burial consisted of a cremation associated with a Food Vessel, and
a small decorated bone mount. Radiocarbon dates were obtained for most of the important levels and
for the first time give us an independent assessment of the age of the tombs in the north mainland
