Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648309

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC31SW 2 3002 1028.

(NC 3002 1028) Chambered Cairn (NR).

OS 6"map, (1968)

The robbed remains of an Orkney-Cromarty type round cairn with a polygonal chamber and a well-defined edge with a scatter of stones beyond, was discovered during field investigation (OS field surveyor [JLD]). It measures about 15m in diameter and 1.2m high, and has been sufficiently robbed to expose the upper parts of the chamber orthostats, which appear to have been linked by drystone walling. The entrance has been from the SE, probable portal stones and a lintel being visible. Surveyed at 1:10 560.

A S Henshall 1972, visited 1963; Visited by OS (J L D) 24 April 1961.

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (J B) 23 September 1976.

A much disturbed cairn of unusual type; Miss Henshall describes the entrance as being in the SE, but on examination this was not convincing, nor was the inturned wall on the NW.

J M Howell 1976 (see archive).