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Loch Caladail

Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Loch Caladail

Classification Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 4782

Site Number NC36NE 22

NGR NC 3949 6612

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NC36NE 22 3949 6612.

(NC 3949 6612) Cairn (NR)

(Undated) annotation on OS map.

On a rise, a cairn 10.7m overall diameter and 0.8m high, partly robbed but not deep enough to expose a cist. Six boulders (two displaced) of the kerb survive in the SE arc. The rest of the kerb has been removed, leaving a trench 0.7m wide by 0.3m deep in which the boulders were embedded.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (W D J) 5 April 1960 and (I S S) 22 July 1971.

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (J B) 14 November 1978.

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