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Glen Oykel
Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Site Name Glen Oykel
Classification Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 4743
Site Number NC30NW 8
NGR NC 3151 0909
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kincardine (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NC30NW 8 3151 0909.
(NC 3151 0909) On a ridge at 500ft OD is a chambered cairn which has been almost entirely robbed. No definite edge to the cairn is discernible although there is clear evidence of an orthostatic chamber measuring 3.75m by 2.75m. Across the area of the passage is a displaced lintel or capstone. Most of the cairn material would have been robbed to build the adjacent sheep-pen.
J M Howell 1976 (see archive).
A fortuitous natural arrangement of boulders and slabs superficially resembling a chambered cairn situated on a ridge. Not an antiquity.
Visited by OS (N K B) 23 June 1980.
