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Clashmore Wood

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Clashmore Wood

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 14868

Site Number NH79SW 4

NGR NH 7386 9077

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Dornoch
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NH79SW 4 7386 9077.

NH 7386 9077. The remains of a cairn situated in an area of cleared woodland. It is a much mutilated mound of stones now covered with heather and gorse. It measures c.17.0m in diameter and has an average height of 1.9m. On the N and W sides of the mound are large hollows, but no evidence of a cist was noted.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; Visited by OS (W D J) 14 June 1963.

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