Accessibility

Font Size

100% 150% 200%

Background Colour

Default Contrast
Close Reset

Pricing Change

New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered. 

 

Field Visit

Date June 1979

Event ID 1131606

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1131606

Balvaird (ROS 7) NH 539 519 NH55SW 10

The mutilated remains of this Orkney-Cromarty cairn stand 800m ENE of Balvaird Mains farmhouse. Nine earthfast and four prostrate stones remain of what was probably a two compartment chamber entered through a passage on the ESE; there are two possible kerbstones on the SE.

RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1979

Woodham 1956, 69, no. 3; Henshall 1963-72, i, 337

People and Organisations

References