Monument record MHG34713 - CANNA, CNOC BHROSTAN

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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A group of eight stony mounds lies at the foot of a scree slope below Cnoc Bhrostan. The mounds lie above the modern fence that marks the extent of the improved pasture fields, and although now reduced to little more than spreads of rubble, they are probably all that remain of a group of huts. The mounds vary in both shape and size, but the largest is oval measuring 7.2m from NW to SE by 5.8m transversely and up to 0.7m in height. A stony bank extends up the slope from the fence to the NE of the group, but this disappears in the scree.
On the S side of the fence, within the pasture field, there is an oval cairn and a grass-grown mound. The cairn lies between two small patches of cultivated ground, and may be the result of field clearance; it measures 7.6m from NE to SW by 7m and 1m in height. The mound is situated 65m to the ENE and does not appear to contain any stones; it is set on the leading edge of a terrace below a field drain and has been damaged by rabbit burrows.
(Canna 701-10)
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 8 April 1995