Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649294

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC50NE 19 57422 05542.

(NC 5738 0551) Cairn (NR).

OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)

A well built, round cairn about 28ft in diameter and 3ft 6ins high, the whole circumference is carefully defined by large, contiguous stones set point upwards and flat face outwards. A slight depression, 7ft long by 4ft 6ins by 10ins deep, runs N-S on the summit.

Visited by OS (W D J) 20 June 1963.

RCAHMS 1911.

This cairn at NC 5742 0554 is as described above.

Re-surveyed at 1:10 000

Visited by OS (N K B) 21 July 1976.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (J B) 15 March 1979.

Scheduled with NC50NE 13-14, 16, 17, 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.