Archaeology Notes

Event ID 657122

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF87SE 13 8567 7207

(NF 8601 7207) Barpa nam Feannag (NR)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904).

This long cairn at 100ft OD, composed of irregular stones, is bare along the centre but overgrown along the sides. It has been little distrubed, except that the chamber has been unroofed. The cairn, aligned ESE to WNW, is c.183ft long (though it may be up to 10ft shorter as the east end is so indefinite) by a maximum width of c. 68ft at 30ft from the east end contracting towards the west, and about 6 to 8ft high.

Near the east end there lies a large flat slab (probably a lintel displaced eastwards from the passage) and to the west of this three large vertical slabs are set roughly parallel to the axis of the cairn, two of them appearing to belong to the N and S walls of a passage or chamber, c. 4ft wide.

A S Henshall 1972.

Barpa nam Feannag, at NF 8567 7202, is as described and planned by Henshall.

Surveyed at 1/10,560.

Visited by OS (N K B) 18 June 1965.