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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725672

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725672

NX25SW 3 2470 5445

(NX 2470 5445) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10000 map (1982)

A much dilapidated cairn, now from 4'-2' in height. It has measured 54' - 58' in diameter.

RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911.

A much robbed cairn, situated on a small natural eminence, measures 19.0m E-W and 18.5m N-S and is 1.8m high on the W side tapering to 0.5m on the E side.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (TRG) 23 June 1976.

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