Monument record MHG39769 - Fencer's Cairn

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 5662 3730 (30m by 30m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG53NE
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish PORTREE

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Reported by workmen erecting a deer fence in 2000

Surveyed by ACFA 2003 (SMR Report 1430)
situated on steep south facing, heather covered slopes. The site lies 6m from a footpath that runs to the valley floor above the headwaters of the Inverarish burn and 10m S of a recently erected deer fence.

The cairn is 8m long N-S and 6m wide E-W. an edging of stones
rising to a max height of 0.3m delineates the S arc of the cairn

Into the Cairn a Shieling has been built 5m N-S and 2m E-W internally. The walls reaching a height of 1.3m on the west. There is an entrance in the E wall 0.8m wide. There is rubble internally that may have been a partician forming a cell at the N end.

40-50m to the west is a 2 compartement shieling lying under a large rocky out crop.
DEH 21/04/05

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Anne Johnstone & Scott Wood. 2003. Some Archaeological Studies of Cairns and Standing Stones on Raasay. SMR Report 1430.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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