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MHG12105 - Achmore Farm

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NC22SW 4 2411 2492.
Circular cairn, almost entirely removed, but some boulders suggesting a kerb remain. There is a large stone of a chamber or cist in the centre.
Info contained in letter from A J Boyd, Inverkirkaig to A S Henshall (NMAS)

This cairn lies on a S-facing slope and is 1m high on S side, surrounded by remains of a retaining circle, average diameter 14m, comprising about a dozen large stones and a fragmentary earth and stone bank. In NE quadrant of the cairn is a large slab, probably a capstone. It is resting against, and partly covering, a smaller and thinner slab which was possibly one of the side slabs of the cist or burial chamber. There are signs of fairly recent excavation just S of these slabs.
Visited by OS (R D L) 22 May 1962.

(NC 2411 2492) Cairn (NR) OS 6"map, (1967)

A heavily robbed cairn lying on a S-facing slope. All that remains is a quarried hollow with 7 intermittent stones of a kerb surviving round SE half giving an overall diameter of 14.4m. 4m within the cairn from kerb in ENE, in a hollow in a mound of debris, lies a prostrate slab (1.4m x 1.0m x 0.5m thick) Its SW edge lies on a smaller slab lying at an angle and measuring 1.1m x 0.6m. It is just possible that these two stones represent the capstone and one of the side slabs of a cist, but if they are in situ, the cist was well off centre. They are more likely to be the result of mutilation. There is no other indication elsewhere in the cairn of either chamber or cist.
Visited by OS (J M) 13 August 1974.

No change to the previous field report.
Revised at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (J B) 12 August 1980.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 2411 2492 (80m by 80m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC22SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	ASSYNT

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