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Laggan Hill
Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Laggan Hill
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 15707
Site Number NJ02NW 8
NGR NJ 00849 26813
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15707
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Morayshire
NJ02NW 8 00849 26813
At NJ 0085 2680 on the E facing slopes of Laggan Hill is a cairn of bare stones measuring about 13.0m in diameter and about 1.0m high. Exposed in the centre of the cairn is a cist oriented NNW to SSE and measuring internally 1.6m long by 0.8m wide by 0.6m deep.
The end slabs are 1.0m high (Information from G A Dixon, 13 Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh)
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (RL) 8 February 1971.
This cairn, which is situated on a narrow terrace on the E flank of Laggan Hill, lies within an area of semi-improved pasture and on the date of visit part of the cairn was obscured by dense bracken. The cairn comprises a mound of stones and boulders measuring 11m in diameter by up to 1.3m in height; a cist at the centre measures 1.2m from NNW to SSE by 1m transversely within end-slabs up to 1m in height and side-slabs 0.6m high.
Visited by RCAHMS (AG), 11 October 2006.
External Reference (2011)
Cist is well preserved, measuring 1.8m by 1m, the two end slabs rising into 'gables' above the level of the lower side slabs (Oram 1996)
Information from the ARCH Community Timelines Course, 2011
