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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