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St John's Loch, Killi Cairn

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name St John's Loch, Killi Cairn

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 8894

Site Number ND27SW 2

NGR ND 2217 7266

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Dunnet
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND27SW 2 2217 7266

(ND 2217 7266) Killi Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

Killi Cairn is a small cairn whose remains measure some 21ft in diameter and 2 to 3ft high. It appears to have been excavated, and from the centre rises a single upright slab 2ft 2ins in height above ground by 3ft 4ins in breadth, which may have formed part of a cist.

RCAHMS 1911.

This grass-covered cairn is as described above; the single upright slab still remains in its centre.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D), 26 February 1965.

A circular, grass-covered mound, 5m in diameter and 1.5m high, with an upright slab 0.6m high, possibly part of a cist, on top. Other stones are visible.

R J Mercer 1981.

Killi Cairn is as described by the previous authorities. The upright slab in the centre is possibly the displaced capstone of a cist.

Visited by OS (N K B), 19 May 1982.

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