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MHG12558 - Chambered Cairn, Blandy

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NC66SW 6 6224 6010.

At NC 6224 6010, on a W-facing shelf at the base of a sharply steepening slope, is a chambered cairn overgrown with heather and bracken. It measures approximately 14.0m from E to W by 10.0m transversely and is 1.7m high, but its precise limits cannot be determined due to an overburden of tumble, except perhaps in the E, where a line of stones 2.5m long may indicate a concave facade. Protruding up to 0.3m through the cairn rubble E of centre are four upright slabs, their disposition indicating an Orkney-Cromarty type chamber. A further slab, now nearly horizontal and at least 0.5m long, leans against the S side of the easternmost slab. A stone, in situ on the E margin of the cairn, probably marks the entrance to the passage.
Surveyed at 1:10,000. Visited by OS (J B) 29 August 1978.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 6223 6010 (80m by 80m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC66SW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	TONGUE

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