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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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- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
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.
