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Carn Pheigith

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Carn Pheigith

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 25211

Site Number NN79SE 1

NGR NN 7548 9330

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Kingussie And Insh
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NN79SE 1 7548 9330.

(NN 7548 9329) Carn Pheigith (NR)

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

A cairn, or heap of boulders, a few feet high and about 12ft. in diameter, supposed to have been erected in memory of a person called Margaret or Peggy.

Name Book 1870.

A heap of bare rubble stones, 3.6m in diameter and 1.0m high, being almost certainly a small memorial cairn of no great antiquity. Tradition not verified.

Visited by OS (N K B) 31 October 1967.

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