Archaeology Notes

Event ID 651446

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC81SW 16 8104 1157.

(NC 8104 1157) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, (1969)

Near the top of Balnacoil Hill is a cairn of from 48 to 50ft in diameter and about 4ft high. Slight excavations have been made in several places, but no cist is exposed.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

Generally as described by RCAHMS, this cairn is of bare stones 1.5m high, 12.0m in diameter with a tendency to spread downhill on the S side.

Surveyed at 1:10,560

Visited by OS (R D L) 1 May 1964.

No change since report of 1 May 1964.

Revised at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (J B) 30 December 1975.