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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 726867
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/726867
NX55SW 6 51983 54134
(NX 5197 5413) Chambered Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957).
Cairn (NR)
OS 1" map (1965).
Location formerly entered as NX 5197 5413.
(The name 'Chambered Cairn' has been mis-applied on OS 6"). At this site, c.175 yds E of Cairnholy farm, is a much dilapidated circular cairn, 50' in diameter and 5' - 6' high. When stones were being removed from it some time before 1849, it was found to contain human bones.
Name Book 1849; RCAHMS 1914, visited 1912.
A circular cairn as described.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 13 March 1972
