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Field Visit

Date April 1996 - May 1996

Event ID 1007739

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1007739

This consists of a large mound, 29.0m north to south by 13.0m cast to west, which has been cut into by the public roadway and the associated fence to the east. When excavated in 1969 by Reece c.forty inhumations in long cists as well as in pits thought to date from between the 6th century and the 10th centuries AD were found.

This mound was traditionally the spot where coffins brought ashore were rested while the funeral parties performed the "deisiol" three times round the mound before being transported up the 'Road of the Dead'.

(ION96 034)

Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016

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