Monument record MHG9414 - Creag Nan Caorach

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 8686 3098 (14m by 14m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC83SE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish KILDONAN

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NC83SE 4 8686 3099.

(NC 86863099) Cairn (NR).
OS 6"map, (1964)

A round cairn of bare stones measuring 15m by 14m by 1.3m high. It has an excavation hollow in the centre, but there are indications of neither cist nor chamber.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; Visited by OS (E G C) 23 May 1961

The cairn is generally as described. In the south half displacement of some of the rubble infill suggests subsidence. Also there is, tenuously, a projecting mound or bank from the NW side that may be a short horn.
Visited by OS (J M) 25 January 1977

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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