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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 676286
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/676286
NN14NW 1 1439 4761.
(NN 1439 4761) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1974)
This cairn, one of the best preserved in Lorn, stands in pasture on the west bank of the River Etive about 700 metres south of Invercharnan. Bowl shaped in profile it measures 8.25 metres in diameter by 1.6 metres in height. It has been constructed with a kerb of boulders on which a second retaining course of stones has been carefully set.
RCAHMS 1975, visited 1971
As described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.
Visited by OS (RD) 13 May 1970
