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Dalrossach

Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Dalrossach

Classification Clearance Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Dalrossach Forest

Canmore ID 82124

Site Number NJ41SW 38.07

NGR NJ 414 147

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Towie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ41SW 38.07 414 147

Nine small, fairly overgrown clearance cairns are dotted around the site. They are up to 4m in diameter and 0.5m in height.

Visited by CFA, October 1992.

CFA 1993; MS/615/32.

(Previously classified as small cairns: reclassified as field clearance cairns). On the date of visit a number of the cairns previously identified by CFA could not be located, but those that were appeared all to be clearance cairns of relatively modern origin.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 28 April 1997.

Activities

Project (October 1992)

Pre-afforestation survey undertaken at Dalrossach Hill, Gordon, Grampian.

T Neighbour 1992.

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