Archaeology Notes

Event ID 653407

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND06SW 5 0118 6462.

(ND 0118 6462) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)

The heavily-robbed remains of this round, stalled cairn of Orkney-Cromarty type are 80ft in diameter.

A S Henshall 1963.

This turf-covered chambered cairn, 1.6m maximum height and approximately 26.0m in diameter, has been mutilated by an excavation trench in the NE. The top has been robbed revealing seven stone slabs forming the stalls of a gallery grave and two portal stones are in the SE corner of the cairn.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 13 November 1964.

This chambered cairn is as described by the previous authorities.

Visited by OS (J B) 11 September 1981.