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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 651592

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651592

NC83SE 3 8726 3056.

(NC 8726 3056) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, (1964)

A cairn, previously noted (RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909), sited on a change of slope, high up in a SW-facing hillside, overlooking a field system associated with hut-circles. (See NC83SE 2 ). It is 8.0m diameter by 0.7m high. The cairn reduces from piled bare stone in the centre to a low heather-covered, but fairly well-defined, peripheral extent. There is no trace of a chamber or cist.

Visited by OS (J M) 26 January 1977 and (E G C) 22 May 1961.

Scheduled with NC83SE 1 and NC83SE 4 as 'four prehistoric burial cairns on the SW flank of Creag nan Caorach.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 10 December 2001.

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