Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648499

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC30NW 6 3170 0853.

(NC 3175 0859) Some 50.0m from the River Oykel at 430 ft OD is a robbed chambered cairn. It measures 19.0m NW-SE by 16.5m transversely with a distinct horned facade. The NE and SE sides of the cairn have been robbed producing the illusion of a tail extending to the east, but it seems more likely that it is heel-shaped on plan. The chamber is marked by the tops of several orthostats indicating a polygonal chamber 3.75m by 2.75m. To the E of the chamber a stone 2.70m by about 0.75m wide appears to be a displaced capstone. The entrance is probably from the SW but no passage can be seen. A bank of cairn material surrounds the area of the chamber.

J H Howell 1976 (see archive)

NC 3170 0853. A chambered cairn as described and planned by the previous authority.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 23 June 1980.