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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 662366

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/662366

NH68NE 7 6823 8740

(NH 6812 8740) Cairn (NR) (Remains of)

OS 25" map, (1970)

Round cairn of bare stones with a diameter of 70ft and height of 3ft after partial robbing. The tops of the slabs of the polygonal chamber can be seen a little to the E of the centre of the cairn. Orkney-Cromarty type.

V G Childe 1944; A S Henshall 1963, visited 1956.

The remains of this chambered cairn are as described by Miss Henshall. It appears to have had a diameter of some 26m and a maximum height of 1.6m. The E edge of the cairn has been cut by an access road. The top of the cairn has been partly cleared and the remains of a chamber are outlined by five upright slabs, largest 0.6m in height, and two large falled slabs.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (W D J) 15 May 1963.

(NH 6823 8740) Chambered Cairn (NR)

OS 25" map, (1970).

This chambered cairn, in moderate condition, is as described by the previous OS field investigator.

Visited by OS (J B) 23 February 1981.

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