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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663138

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH74NW 5 7162 4761

See also NH74NW 11 and NH74NW 113.

(NH 7162 4761) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1874, sheet iv).

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1907).

The remains of this chambered cairn consisted, in 1879, of "twenty-five stones of which, however, only seven appear to be in their natural position" (ISSFC 1885). Today it is almost entirely destroyed, the main feature being a standing stone 5ft 6ins high, 4ft wide by 2ft 9ins to 3ft thick at the base. Round it are grouped a number of large boulders, all of which appear to have been moved.

This may be the site described by Anderson (1831) consisting of thirty upright stones in two rows (see NH74NW 11)

G Anderson 1831; J Fraser 1884; ISSFC 1885; A S Henshall 1963.

The remains of the cairn are as described above. The stones are grouped together on a low mound c.8.0m in diameter.

Visited by OS (EGC) 25 April 1962.

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