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Field Visit
Date September 1978
Event ID 1128168
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1128168
Balnacrae (ROS 4) * NH 533 646 NH 56 SW 1
All that now survives of this Orkney-Cromarty Cairn are the massive slabs of a chamber measuring over 7m from NE to SW by about 4.3m transversely and entered from the NE by an entrance-passage at least 5.8m long. The original diameter of the cairn was probably over 23m.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
(Henshall 1963-72, i, 334, 335).
