Database Update
Date 24 September 2010
Event ID 629791
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/629791
This chambered cairn is more or less as described and planned by Henshall. It stands at the bottom of a field little more than 10m above the High Water Mark and is now straddled by a modern fence line. It is almost square on plan, measuring 19m from NNE to SSW by 18.5m transversely across its façade, and still stands up to 2m in height at the centre. The façade is aligned WNW and ESE and the stones at either end are angled to form the corners. Another three stones of the façade are still visible but these have now fallen or are displaced. Seven stones are arranged in two rows to form the sides of the chamber and passage extending SSW from a point 2m behind the centre of the façade. The slabs forming the SSW end of the chamber have been robbed, probably when a trench was driven into the cairn from the NE to quarry stone. There is a standing stone 20m to the NE (see NF76NE 3).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG,SPH) 24 September 2010
