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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 693996
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/693996
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.
