Archaeology Notes
Event ID 653819
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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ND13SE 37 centred 1835 3143.
ND 1835 3143. A cairnfield of unknown period, covering an area about 500 by 200m on a slope above the cliff edge at Dorus Ailein, and consisting of about fifteen roughly circular, grass-grown, small stone mounds, the largest 10 by 8m and the greatest height 1.5m, the average being 0.5m.
C Batey 1982.
A number of stony mounds on a steep, grassy and bracken-overgrown slope. Some may be natural, but others are undoubtedly stone clearance heaps, probably from early-modern land-use.
Visited by OS (J M) 13 October 1982.