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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716073

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/716073

NT41NE 5 4604 1705.

(NT 4604 1705) Cairn (NR)

OS 25" map (1968)

This cairn is situated on a spur running NNE from Pisgah Hill, just over 1000 ft OD. It is 32 ft in diameter and 3 1/2 ft high. A few boulders, forming part of a kerb, appear through the turf that covers the cairn.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1951

A turf-covered stony mound, as described.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 30 September 1965

No change to previous information.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (JB) 10 November 1979

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