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Skye, Kinloch, Carn Glas

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Skye, Kinloch, Carn Glas

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 11653

Site Number NG71NW 1

NGR NG 7003 1637

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Sleat
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NG71NW 1 7003 1637.

(NG 7003 1637) Carn Glas (NAT) (Shown as cairn)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

(Not mentioned in Inventory).

RCAHMS 1929.

Carn Glas, a much mutilated cairn, is situated at the N end of Loch na Dal on the E bank of the Abhainn Ceann-Locha at a height of about 30 ft. OD.

It measures 22.5m in diameter and 2.3m in height where best preserved in the NE quadrant, the remainder of the cairn having been extensively robbed.

Visited by OS (A C) 14 June 1961.

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