Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649556

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC65NE 5 6737 5940.

At NC 6737 5940 situated prominently on the S side of a rocky out-crop is a severely robbed, chambered cairn. It is about 15.0m in diameter, with a maximum height of 0.6m in the centre; elsewhere the cairn is reduced to a stony rim and scattered stones. In the centre a chamber is indicated by two opposing earthfast boulders 1.1m apart and protruding up to 0.6m through the cairn material.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (J B) 16 September 1977.