Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674291

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM35SE 1 3862 5482

See also NM35SE 2.

(NM 3862 5482) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

This cairn occupies the highest point of the southernmost of the three rock ridges of Rubha na h-Airde, the NE tip of the Mornish peninsula. It measures about 10m in diameter. A number of the boulders that formed the kerb are still in situ in the W half, while at the centre, choked with debris, there is a cist measuring 1m by 0.55m and at least 0.4m in depth. The capstone, which has been dislodged and broken, lies to the W of the cist.

Surveyed at 1;10,000.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1973; Visited by OS (RD) 22 April 1972.

Scheduled (with NM35SE 2) as Rubha an Aird, cairns.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 4 February 2003.