Archaeology Notes
Event ID 649137
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NC50NE 37 5900 0730
(NC 5900 0730) Cairn (NR).
OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)
Lairg Moor, South: The site of a round chambered cairn. The cairn was about 47ft in diameter, but has now been almost totally removed except for a ring about 2ft high round the edge. A number of large stones in the centre are obviously not earthfast and there is now no indication that there was a chamber. In 1909 RCAHMS (1911) reported 'a portion, however, still remains across the centre, from which the ends of several large upright stones protrude, indicating the chambered character of construction'.
RCAHMS 1911; A S Henshall 1963.
The remains of this cairn are as described above. It measures about 14.0m in diameter and the maximum height is 1.0m. A mutilated mound occupies the centre of the cairn but no evidence of a chamber was noted. Revised 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 26 June 1963.
This chambered cairn is as previously described.
Resurveyed at 1:2500 and 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 13 August 1976.
Scheduled as 'Lairg Moor South, chambered cairn...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 March 2005.