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Central ring cairn and cupmarked standing stone in its circle.

Hidden cupmark on the top of one of the inner kerbstones inside the SW cairn.

Some of the cupmarks on the kerb of the SW cairn.

Detail of cupmarks from the kerb cairn.

The cairn seen from the Strathspey Steam Railway.

The base of the broch in its setting.

Further large bits of masonry.

Looking towards The Ord and its chambered cairns from the site.

The ruined southern side of the foundations.

There are some very large stones in the foundations.

The base of the broch site.

Large hut circle at NC57730588, NE of the cairns.

Slabs on top of the chamber.

Roofing slabs of the passage.

The passage.

Looking north towards Loch Shin.

Looking westish, the ground drops from the Ord then climbs to again the wooded hillsides.

The mast isn’t a good addition, but this is a fabulous site regardless.

The wonderful chambered cairn in its setting, with Loch Shin beyond.

Looking NE towards Lairg.

Looking east along the chamber and across the River Shin.

Despite the intrusive mast, this is a great site. Looking towards Loch Shin.

Looking south over the northern round cairn, towards the sun-bleached mountains of Easter Ross.

Northern round cairn.

The excellent northern round cairn of the pair just below the summit of The Ord.

Looking down on the River Shin from the southern of the two cairns.

Section of apparent kerbing around the southern of the two round cairns.

The southern of a couple of round cairns just below the chambered cairns on top of The Ord.

Burnt mound at NC57560572.

The stones are small, the ring is incomplete, but this is a lovely site in a beautiful setting.

The NW circle.

The NW circle sits on a little raised platform (natural?). The SE circle is over in the bushes to the left, the Twinners cairn in the bushes right of centre.

The excellent NW circle.

This nice pointy stone is close to the two likely candidates for the SE circle, but seems to be off line from any arc that would incorporate them.

Another possible candidate for the SE circle. This one would be in the northern arc.

One of several possible stones from the SE circle. The vegetation and small trees makes plotting a circle from the two most likely stones quite difficult.

I took these two as the most likely candidates for the two uprights on the southwestern arc of the SE circle mentioned by Burl. They’re certainly similar stones to those forming the NW circle.

Twinners cairn. The SE of the River Shin stone circles is in the vegetation beyond.

Stoney mound close to the River Shin stone circles that Canmore list as the Twinners cairn.

The light was all but gone by this time.

One decent stone remains.