MHG3144 - Clearance Cairn - Vatten

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CLEARANCE CAIRN? (Undated)

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NG24SE 10 291 441.

(NG 291 441) About 1/2 mile NE of Vatten about 700 yards W of Barpannan (Cairns: NG24SE 6) on a rocky shelf on the hillside at an elevation of 100' above sea-level, is a ruined cairn reduced to about 4' in height and augmented round the edge by stones gathered from the fields adjoining. It seems to have been circular and about 70' in diameter. (This cairn is listed with the Barpannan/Barpa group NG24SE 6 and 7 under the heading "Cairns (probably chambered), Vatten")
RCAHMS 1928.

This feature seems to be nothing more than the results of field clearance piled onto a natural rock outcrop; its classification as a prehistoric cairn cannot be substantiated.
Visited by OS (C F W) 10 April 1961.

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--- SHG2656 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1928. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. . 164, No. 524.

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Grid reference	Centred NG 2915 4417 (32m by 32m)
Map sheet	NG24SE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	DUIRINISH

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https://canmore.org.uk/site/10839 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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