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Field Visit
Date June 1979
Event ID 1131568
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Cairn lrenan ( ROS 13) NH 566 522 NH55SE 10
A Clava passage-grave, measuring about 12m in diameter over a kerb of graded boulders, is situated immediately S of Carnurnan farmhouse. It is surrounded by a circle of standing stones, of which four remain upright, four have fallen and a ninth is missing. The oval chamber, which measures 4.3m by 3.4m, is entered from the SW through a passage 4m long and 1 m wide.
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1979
Woodham 1956, 66-8, no. 1; Henshall 1963-72, i, 343