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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 725047
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725047
NX16NW 6 1441 6649
(NX 1442 6651) Lingdowey Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957).
See also NX16NW 1 and NX16NW 7.
(See also NX16NW 7) A cairn about 75' in diameter and 10' high considerably robbed but apparently intact at the centre.
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911; R W Feachem 1963.
This cairn is as described above. The name is not known locally.
Surveyed at 1:10000.
Visited by OS (JP), 29 April 1976.
(NX 1441 6649) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1977).
This cairn, one of the Lingdowey Cairns, is situated on a low spur on the N side of the Lingdowey Burn, about 830m ESE of the summit of Cairnerzean Fell. It measures 25m in diameter and, although considerable quantities of stone have been removed, still stand 3.8m in maximum height.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 11 May 1985.
