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Image of Lagnagreishach Wood (Cairn(s)) by drewbhoy

South esat part of the cairn is reasonably clear, whins have taken over the ditch.

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Image of Lagnagreishach Wood (Cairn(s)) by drewbhoy

The best preserved part of the cairn/henge is in the north west.

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Image of Lagnagreishach Wood (Cairn(s)) by drewbhoy

At least the south west part of the cairn is jabby stuff free.

Image credit: drew/B
Image of Lagnagreishach Wood (Cairn(s)) by drewbhoy

Is a cairn or a henge, place bets on the henge. This the north west section of the surrounding ditch. The horse scared the living daylights out of me.

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Lagnagreishach Wood

From the west of Nairn take the B9092 then the second minor road heading nprth west. As soon as the road has trees near both sides find a place to park, there is an old forestry track to the north side. Park there and walk a short distance west until a path, in bits overgrown, heads south. This swings back east ad heads straight to confusing and hard to spot site.

OS have it marked as an enclosure/cairn (and in the past described the site as a small fort) and Canmore has it down as a henge/cairn. Probably it has been used as all three. Here is the Canmore description :

A well preserved cairn, levelled into a slight SW facing slope in reafforested, Lagnagreishach Wood.

‘It comprises an oval platform measuring c 7.0m SW/NE by c 6.0m transversely, surrounded by a ditch c 2.5m wide and c 0.4m deep with an outer earthen bank c 2.5m wide and c 0.3m high. Across the ditch in the SW is a causeway c 2.0m wide, which is mutilated by a tree stump, with a corresponding break in the bank. The central platform is slightly raised, c 0.2m, above the surrounding ground level by a turf-covered crown of closely packed rubble stones which covers the whole platform.‘

All of which is present and correct. Beware bramble branches!

Visited 18/7/2018.

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