Excavation

Date 1961

Event ID 1005929

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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Before excavation by Corcoran in 1961 in advance of the raising of the level of Loch Calder, it was a large circular, grass-covered mound, about 110ft in diameter and over 12ft high with no evidence of a chamber. The excavation revealed an eccentrically set chamber with an entrance passage in the SE, a massive internal revetting wall and an outer wall-face of good quality masonry. Corcoran regarded the cairn as being of one build but Miss Henshall suggests two phases. Finds from the excavation in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

J X W P Corcoran 1967