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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654777
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654777
ND23NE 8 2624 3694.
(ND 2624 3694) Short Cists found AD 1845 and 1865 (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)
A group of short cists was discovered about 1845 during trenching operations, about 50 yds from 'a large green cairn' (presumably ND23NE 3) along the base of a natural wall of rock at Achavar.
About 1865, R I Shearer relocated them and opened three of them.
J Anderson 1866.
The site occurs at the base of a natural ridge of rock running N-S. No other information.
Visited by OS (A A) 4 May 1967.
