Monument record MHG1606 - Shooting Stand or Shelter, Beinn Ratha

Summary

A modern cairn fashioned to provide either a shelter or shooting stand.

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Grid reference Centred NC 9516 6112 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC96SE
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish REAY
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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A small, relatively modern cairn, 3m in diameter and 0.8m high, situated on a rocky outcrop in the saddle between the two highest points of Ben Ratha. The rock has been hewn out to make a small compartment and banked by turf sods, apparently to make a shelter or shooting-butt. Not an antiquity.
Visited by OS (J L D) 24 May 1960.

Cairn (NAT) OS 6"map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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