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MHG670 - Chambered cairn - Carriside

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A late neolithic-bronze age burial cairn containing a chamber or cist. Scheduled.

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A late neolithic-bronze age burial cairn containing a chamber or cist. The northern of the two recorded.

2 prehistoric cairns located about 125m apart on open moorland.
Inf: Historic Scotland, October 1992.

ND05NE 75 067 594.

(Scheduled as Carriside, cairns). This monument consists of two cairns of prehistoric date located about 125m apart on open moorland. The N cairn is a subcircular heather covered mound about 18m by 16m and about 0.25m in height. There is a central depression about 2m by 6.5m running E-W and one upright stone is visible at the E end of the central depression. The S cairn is about 10.5m in diameter and 0.25m high. This is a circular heather-covered mound and has a central depression about 2m in diameter. In the depression is a single upright stone about 0.6m by 0.25m by 0.25m.
The upright slabs in the centre of the two cairns are likely to represent the remains of central chambers. Chambered cairns such as this date to the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, and were used as funerary structures. They contain stone-lined chambers in which the remains of the dead were placed. These monuments usually contained several burials, and some show long sequences of construction and reuse.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling documents dated 1998.

Scheduled Ancient Monument Management Plan, 1st April 2003 to 31st March 2008. HS, 11/03/03. See assoc. docs. File.
J Aitken : 25/03/03

Re-scheduling details - 2/2004

See MHG60468 for southern cairn.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 0673 5940 (16m by 16m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND05NE
Civil Parish	REAY
Geographical Area	CAITHNESS

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