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Harriet Plantation

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Harriet Plantation

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 14843

Site Number NH79SE 2

NGR NH 7609 9330

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NH79SE 2 7609 9330

(NH 7609 9330) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, (1960)

See also NH79SE 1.

About 16' to the N (of NH79SE 1) lies another circular cairn, with a diameter of about 36' and a height of about 3'6". It has been opened up in places, but neither cist nor chamber is exposed.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

A circular cairn of bare rubble stones on the brink of a S-facing slope, It measures c.11.5m in diameter and c.1.0m maximum height. The centre is disturbed but no structure is exposed. It is possible that it is connected to the cairn immediately to the SE. (See NH79SE 1).

Re-surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (A A), 25 March 1971.

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