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Lairg Muir
Spoil Heap (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lairg Muir
Classification Spoil Heap (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 4988
Site Number NC50NE 2
NGR NC 5871 0714
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4988
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50NE 2 5871 0714.
(NC 5871 0714) (OS 6" map, annontated by T C Welsh) A possible long cairn comprising a low, grassy mound of stones about 1m high, 57m long and 15m wide at the SW end tapering gradually towards the NE. What may be a short cist 0.9m by 1m lies 6m in from the SW end.
T C Welsh 1973.
for further details see MS/737/12
The long mound described by Welsh is at NC 5764 0708; there is a mound of similar size and shape at NC 5772 0705. They occur on a SE facing moorland slope close to to an electricity sub-station built within the last twenty years, and though local verification cannot be obtained, they are almost certainly dumps from the excavations for the sub-station. The 'mounds' recent origin is suggested by the covering of turf and rank grass in an area of heather; where the content is exposed, it is of light brown sub-soil and boulders, the latter unweathered. The supposed cist noted by Welsh is a fortuitous arrangement of boulders.
Visited by OS (N K B) 9 August 1976.
