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Field Visit

Date September 1978

Event ID 1129907

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1129907

Mains of Ardross (ROS 52) NH 615 747 NH67SW 6

All that remains of this Orkney-Cromarty Cairn (known also as Carn na Feinne) is a chamber measuring 5.8m from ENE to WSW by 1.5m transversely. Two inhumations were found when the chamber was opened in 1876.

RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978.

(Henshall 1963-72, ii, 572; OS Record Card NH 67 SW 9)

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