Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675596

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM92NW 10 9393 2806.

(NM 9393 2806) Cairn (NR).

OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)

Near the north bank of the River Lonan, are the remains of a cairn, now grass grown and measuring 18.3 metres in diameter and 1.9 metres in height. There is a shallow depression in the centre which contains, embedded in the turf, a flat slab measuring 1.22 by 0.76 metres and at least 0.15 metres in thickness. This slab was raised in the 1870s when it was confirmed as being the capstone of a cist which measured internally 0.91 by 0.50 and was 0.63 metres in depth. This cist was found to be filled with earth in which a few small fragments of human bone were found, but there were no grave goods of any kind.

RCAHMS 1975, visited 1969.

As described.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (R D) 8 October 1969.