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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694294

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR24SE 9 282 414

Manuscript annotation on RCAHMS working map indicates 'clearance cairns'.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

NR 282 414. A cairn, 26ft across, with several earthfast boulders round the periphery, and with at centre a hog-backed stone lying inverted over a lower slab, lies at the N end of a turf and boulder dyke.

F Newall and H E Newall 1961.

Field clearance and a wall.

Visited by RCAHMS 2 June 1977.

All that can be seen at the given map reference are some large stones piled up against a ruined field wall. Not an antiquity.

Visited by OS (BS) 30 May 1978.

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