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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 656108
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656108
NF73NE 2 7787 3621.
(NF 7787 3621) Barp (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
A chambered cairn is situated at the top of Glac Hukarvat. It is a bare mound of large boulders, 9 and 10ft high with a peristalith 64 to 67ft in diameter. A funnel-shaped forecourt, facing ESE, had a passage leading from it to a circular chamber.
RCAHMS 1928; A S Henshall 1972.
This cairn is as described and planned by Henshall (1972) and RCAHMS (1928). The footings of 2 shielings lie at the base of the cairn on the south side.
Re-surveyd at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 14 May 1965.
