Archaeology Notes

Event ID 693996

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR26NW 12 2399 6722.

NR 2402 6721. A fine round cairn, slightly robbed on top, but with the burial probably still intact. It measures 17m in diameter and 1.7m in height and has a now discont- inuous kerb of carefully selected large blocks.

F Celoria 1960; Information from RCAHMS to OS.

NR 2402 6720. A cairn situated on level ground near the crest of a gentle scarp has commanding views to the W. Turf covered and flat topped it is 17.0m overall diameter and 1.3m high with an intermittent peristalith. A large stone lying 5.0m outside the perimeter of the cairn in the SW appears to be a displaced kerb stone.

Survey at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (T R G) 13 May 1978.