Monument record MHG50900 - Fearns Road

NMRS Report: (25/06/2007 13:29:54)
NG53NE 215 5785 3598

NG 5785 3598 Cairn. On a south facing slope at approximately 170m above sea level, on a mound between two small burns, is a cairn, not more than 25m to the north of the Inverarish to Fearns road. An outer mound is oval in shape and measures 19.5m from north to south by 15m east to west. The limits of this mound are clearly defined in most parts, sometimes with stone edging but occassionally simply as a change of slope in the grass. Several large stones and boulders lie within the mound while beneath the grassy turf cover stone can be felt. On top of this outer cairn a further mound, 10.5m by 8.0m, has been built with the edging to this mound also defined by stones and a change of slope. Within this inner mound a shieling has been built.
It is considered that this is a multi-period site. An oval prehistoric cairn has been re-used as a base for perhaps a second cairn and finally as the base for a shieling. Site identified during an archaeological survey on Raasay by the ACFA.
Anne Wood and Scott Wood, 2004.