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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 649292
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/649292
NC50NE 17 57402 05579.
(NC 5740 0559) Chambered Cairns (NR) (also includes NC50NE 16).
OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)
The remains of an Orkney-Cromarty type round cairn with a polygonal chamber, set on a rocky knoll. The cairn material has been entirely removed and its edge is indefinite but the diameter across the chamber appears to have been about 45ft. Of the chamber, which has been entered from the ESE, the orthostats remain, ranging to a height of 3ft.
Visited by OS (W D J) 20 June 1963.
A S Henshall 1963.
This Orkney-Cromarty type chambered cairn is as described and planned by Henshall. The two masts and guy anchors of a TV relay station have been set into it.
Resurveyed at 1:10 000
Visited by OS (N K B) 21 July 1976.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J B) 16 March 1979.
Scheduled with NC50NE 13-14, 16, 19, 22, 38-9, 46, 54-6 and 81-2 as The Ord, chambered cairns, cairns, settlements and field systems.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 14 February 2002.
