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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 733008

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/733008

NX39NW 1 3203 9606

(NX 3203 9606) Dalquhairn Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map (1958)

A large, turf-covered cairn of stones, 33m in diameter and 1.5m in maximum height, which has been considerably mutilated, especially by a small quarry on the NW.

Visited by OS (JLD) 17 October 1955

Situated in a low lying arable field this much robbed cairn is generally as described above.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (SFS) 21 January 1976

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