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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 660297
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660297
NH55NW 2 5045 5521
(NH 50455521) Stone Circle (OE)
(Remains of)
OS 6"map, 1938
Megalithic remains consisting of several stones, only three of which are erect, about 2ft 6ns high.
Name Book 1876
No trace of this stone circle could be found. A much robbed chambered cairn situated on a terrace on the steep S. slopes of Brahan Wood. The cairn material has been removed and its perimeter cannot now be traced. Eleven large slabs are to be seen, eight of which are in situ, suggesting an Orkney/Cromarty round cairn with two polygonal chambers. The orientation is uncertain
Visited by OS (R D), 20 January 1965
No change.
Visited by RCAMS (JRS), March 1989.
