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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 653819

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/653819

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.

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