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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 648321
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/648321
NC21SE 1 26038 11142
(NC 2603 1114) Chambered Cairn (NR)
OS 6"map, (1966)
Round cairn of the Orkney-Cromarty group, with a polygonal chamber. The cairn has been built on a slightly sloping site on the shore of Loch Borrolan. It had a diameter of about 50 ft and still has a height of 7 ft, but it has been severely robbed on the E side. It stands 6 ft within a ring of small boulders which seem to edge a very low platform on which the cairn is built. This feature is more noticeable on the higher and more complete W side, where the boulders are almost contiguous. The entrance passage has evidently been on the E side but is now destroyed. The chamber is represented by two slabs 4 ft 10 ins apart, evidently the walls of the outer compartment of a bipartite chamber, and two transverse slabs beyond them. The inner end of the chamber is obscured by cairn material.
A S Henshall 1963; RCAHMS 1911.
A chambered cairn, as described by Miss Henshall.
Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 23 June 1980 and (G H P) 2 June 1962.
