Monument record MHG3962 - Eilean Chathastail, Eigg

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Location

Grid reference Centred NM 4872 8381 (14m by 14m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NM48SE
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish SMALL ISLES
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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NM48SE 14 4872 8381 to 4877 8382.

At NM 4872 8381 and NM 4877 8382 are two turf-covered cairns. The former, showing occasional kerbstones, measures 8.6m in diameter and is 0.9m high. About 6m to the NE are traces of an amorphous stony structure of uncertain classification. The other, on the edge of a low cliff, measures about 6.0m in diameter and 0.5m high, and has it's centre hollowed. The edge of the cairn in the N has slipped away over the cliff.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (AA) 8 May 1972

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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