Monument record MHG9016 - Cairn, Spital Wood

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 5600 5146 (4m by 4m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH55SE
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Old County ROSS-SHIRE
Civil Parish KILLEARNAN

Map

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Full Description

NH55SE 4 5601 5147.
Cairn (NR) OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)

At the north side of the Spittal Wood is a cairn which has been greatly enlarged by the farmers who have carted stones off their fields and placed them there.
Name Book 1872.

A heap of field cleared stones, measuring 20m E-W by 5m and about 1.2m high, in corner of a field. There is nothing to indicate that it was an earlier cairn and the situation and form of heap suggests that it is all field clearance.
Visited by OS (I S S) 29 March 1973.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 15, 5.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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