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The Shean
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name The Shean
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Hill Of Lieurary
Canmore ID 7932
Site Number ND06SE 6
NGR ND 0810 6166
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7932
- Council Highland
- Parish Halkirk
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND06SE 6 0810 6166.
(ND 0810 6166) The Shean (NAT)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
The Shean is a small artificial mound about 2ft high and of unknown origin, said to have had bonfires burnt on it
Name Book 1872
This is the grass-covered remains of a small cairn, 10.0m in diameter by 0.5m high. No further information about its origin or purpose could be obtained locally; it is now surmounted by an OS triangulation pillar. Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 February 1965
(ND 0810 6166) The Shean (NAT) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
A cairn, as described.
Visited by OS (N K B) 17 September 1981
Mound (ND 0811 6166). Dimensions: 8 x 7m. Subcircular mound, the top of which has been removed to install a trig point.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995.
