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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 664117
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/664117
NH78NW 8 7113 8776.
(NH 7113 8776) Cairn (NR) (rems of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1973)
A large tumulus, mostly of earth. It has never been explored, but has been partly destroyed, "but to no great extent at present".
Name Book 1874.
A cairn which has been excavated and almost completely carted away for road metal.
RCAHMS 1911.
Situated on a raised beach at Newton Point are the remains of a turf and whin-covered cairn 12.0m in diameter. The interior has been robbed to ground level and all that remains is a penannular rim up to 3.5m wide and 0.5m high. The content where exposed is of beach stones.
Visited by OS (N K B) 24 October 1969 and 10 December 1980.
