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Ballinluig
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ballinluig
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 14893
Site Number NH80NE 9
NGR NH 8612 0985
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14893
- Council Highland
- Parish Alvie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH80NE 9 8612 0985.
A heather-covered cairn with a possible cist lies on flat ground on undulating moorland and is accompanied by field clearance heaps. The cairn measures 4.7m in overall diameter and 0.3m maximum height. Occasional kerbstones are visible on the W and S, the best preserved being 0.7m long and 0.2m high. The possible cist, apparently disturbed, consists of eight rounded boulders, enclosing an area approximately 0.4m by 0.3m, and two flat slabs which may have been capstones.
Extending 110m from the cairn to the ENE are the indistinct remainsof up to fifteen field clearance cairns 4m in maximum diameter and 0.4 m high. No lynchets or field boundaries are evident. This site will probably be destroyed by the construction of the new road.
G Harden and D W Ross 1979.
NMRS, MS/179.
