North Sannox 2

Nearest town:
Rothesay (18km NNE)
OS reference:
NS0108246836
OS sheets:
63, 69
Latitude:
55° 40' 26.88 N
Longitude:
5° 9' 49.56 W
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Image of North Sannox 2 (Chambered Cairn) by Howburn Digger

Sannox 2 – a sunny green isle in the dark deep of the forest on Leac Gharbh.

Image credit: Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Jul 16, 2012
Image of North Sannox 2 (Chambered Cairn) by Howburn Digger

One of the exposed chambers in Sannox 2. There are no less than seven of these chambered cairns recently been identified scatteredacross the forestry plantation on the slopes of Leac Gharbh overlooking the mouth of the North Sannox Burn.

Image credit: Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Jul 16, 2012

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North Sannox 2

Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Jul 2, 2018

This site has been clear-felled. Though I should stress the ground is NOT clear. It is an almost un-navigable wastleand of treestumps, holes, deep tyre-ruts and such-like. The cairns where I have been able to locate them, have ALL been respected by the plantation fellers. However the ground surrounding the cairn resembles The Somme in 1917. Here is the current state of North Sannox 2 which I was completely unable to locate last year despite the clear-felling. It was just too much of a wild jumble...

canmore.org.uk/collection/1665555

Canmore’s photo perfectly shows the same orientation in my first “forested” photo of the chamber back in July 2012 when it was deep in Spruce Plantation.

themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/109247.jpg

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