MHG1606 - Shooting Stand or Shelter, Beinn Ratha
Summary
A modern cairn fashioned to provide either a shelter or shooting stand.
Type and Period (2)
Protected Status
- None recorded
Full Description
A small, relatively modern cairn, 3m in diameter and 0.8m high, situated on a rocky outcrop in the saddle between the two highest points of Ben Ratha. The rock has been hewn out to make a small compartment and banked by turf sods, apparently to make a shelter or shooting-butt. Not an antiquity.
Visited by OS (J L D) 24 May 1960.
Cairn (NAT) OS 6"map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
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Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NC 9516 6112 (10m by 10m) (2 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NC96SE |
| Civil Parish | REAY |
| Geographical Area | CAITHNESS |
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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
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External Links (1)
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/7345 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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