Monument record MHG10637 - Cnoc an-T-Sidhein

NC70SW 41 7479 0459 and 7476 0452

At NC 747 045, in a prominent position in an area of field clearance associated with hut circles (see NC70SW 37) is a group of three small heather covered cairns (A-C) between 3.0m and 4.0m in diameter and up to 0.5m high. These cairns are distingushable from the numerous stone clearance heaps around them in that they have a regular shape, and are bounded by the remains of a well formed kerb of large stones on edge. Surveyed at 1:10000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 10 June 1981.

Only two of the three cairns located in this area by the OS (1981) were visible on the date of survey (A or B and C); this may be due to the deep heather covering the ridge on which the cairns lie. The two cairns identified lie about 75m apart; that to the N (ROG95 422, NC 7479 0459), which is situated on the crest of a rise, is oval on plan and measures 5.4m from N to S by 4.8m transversely over a kerb of boulders standing up to 0.6m high. The S cairn (ROG95 421, NC 7476 0452) lies on the edge of a terrace and measures 4m from NW to SE by 3.5m transversely over a ring of boulders up to 0.4m high. The cairns are situated on the W edge of an area of small cairns that forms part of the site recorded as NC 70SW 42.
(ROG95 421-2)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 21 March 1995