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Dalmor

Cairn(s)

<b>Dalmor</b>Posted by GLADMANImage © Robert Gladstone
Nearest Town:Thurso (42km ENE)
OS Ref (GB):   NC71775509 / Sheet: 10
Latitude:58° 27' 55.28" N
Longitude:   4° 11' 54.32" W

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Visited 23.7.14

Directions:
About 2 miles south of the A836 on the western side of the B871


Couldn’t see a thing. The whole area was covered in chest high ferns.
Only chance of spotting this is to come in the winter.


CANMORE state:
Two heavily-robbed cairns with short cists.
'A' is 13m in diameter and 1m high with a central cists complete with coverstone, and about 3m to the north, a cavity which suggests the former existence of a second cist. In February 1938 the cairn was being used as a quarry for road metal, and in subsequent sifting of the material which had been thrown out, most of a jet necklace and a jet button were recovered, and are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS]. (Acc No. FN 176).
'B' has measured 13.4.m in diameter but its southern segment has been entirely destroyed. A single slab on edge near the centre denotes the position of a probable cist. 1960
Posted by CARL
20th August 2014ce