Archaeology Notes

Event ID 653683

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND06NW 10 01326 65425

(ND 0133 6542) Standing Stones (NR)

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

This chambered cairn is 220ft long with two horns at the NE end projecting an additional 18ft and 30ft. A possible horn at the SW end projects 16ft. The SW end resembles a round flat-topped steep-sided cairn 8ft high and 53ft wide; from thence to the NE end the cairn is about 35ft wide and 3 to 4ft high. Stones projecting from the cairn suggest a peristalith, a chamber, and cists or other structures (A S Henshall 1963), and these probably account for the OS publication (RCAHMS 1911).

RCAHMS 1911; A S Henshall 1963.

This turf-covered long cairn is generally as described above, but there is now no trace of the horn at the SW end.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 18 November 1964.

(ND 0133 6542) Long Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, (1969)

No change to the previous field report.

Visited by OS (J B) 8 August 1981.