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MHG2758 - Cairns, Upperton

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Site of two possible cairns.

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Amidst the clearance heaps of a settlement (NH 33 SE 1) on a SW facing slope are two stony mounds (X and Y). (Visible on RAF air photograph 541/A/395: 3163-4)
'X' is oval, measuring c.8.0m E-W by c.7.0m transversely and c.o.6m high. It lies almost centrally within a level sub circular area scarped into the slope which is surrounded by a stony bank measuring 15.8m NW-SE by 14.0m transversely crest to crest. The bank is c.2.0m wide increasing to c.3.0m in the SE. No entrance is apparent, but there is a slight dip in the bank on the SE side, with a prostrate stone immediately inside it. This is probably a cairn with contemporary surrounding bank similar in some respects to NG.82 NE 14, but it could possibly be a cairn within a hut, the dip in the SE arc of the bank being a blocked entrance. The possibility that it is a clearance heap within a hut is remote, because of its central position and regular profile.
'Y' is oval with a mutilated top, and measures 9.2m NE-SW by 8.0m transversely. Around the W arc are the remains of a ditch, 0.3m deep, which may originally have encircled the mound. It is probably a cairn. Visited by OS (N K B) 1 October 1970

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Grid reference	Centred NH 3922 3135 (42m by 26m)
Map sheet	NH33SE
Civil Parish	KILTARLITY AND CONVINTH
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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