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Note
Date 1979
Event ID 1128167
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1128167
Baldoon (ROS 44) NH 633 759 NH67NW 3
Only a two-compartment chamber is now visible of this Orkney-Cromarty Cairn, which formerly measured 15.8m by 12.8m. In 1883 a cist containing human bones was found in the cairn. This is probably the 'fort' mentioned by Watson.
RCAHMS 1979
(W J Watson 1904, 73; A S Henshall 1972, 566-8)
