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Field Visit
Date 25 November 2009
Event ID 625285
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/625285
The cairn lies on a gently sloping area about 30m from the road leading to Loch Borralan. It is approximately 15m by 12m, aligned E-W with a maximum height of 2m. The cairn body consists of gathered stones of varying shape and size, though most are sub-angular and angular, averaging 0.4m long. The stones are piled to form a sub-circular cairn which has been robbed, particularly on the east side. The chamber is no longer visible, although a depression on the top of the mound may indicate this. No orthostats or lintel stones are visible and the kerb described by previous surveyors is barely visible.
The site has been described as a round cairn of Orkney-Cromarty group with a polygonal chamber. There is no evidence of the slabs of the bi-partite chamber as described in 1911 and the site appears to have been considerably disturbed since the last report from 1962.
(HLP_no 12)
Assynt's Hidden Lives Project 2009
