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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 690354
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/690354
NO54NE 3 5931 4901.
(NO 5931 4901) Cairn Knap (NAT) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1971)
Cairn Knap: A number of years ago, this cairn or tumulus was opened and found to contain two cists and a great number of human bones.
Name Book 1859.
This feature is a round cairn as its stone-built composition can be clearly seen in many excavated places. Much of the cairn has been quarried away on the NW, but its perimeter can be traced showing it to be 22.5m in diameter. It is 3.0m high.
Visited by OS (JLD) 12 June 1958.
Field Investigator (JLD) confirmed.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (JTT) 19 October 1965.
