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MHG3536 - Cairnfield - Drumashie Moor

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Centred at NH 624 355 is an area of stone clearance heaps. Several of bare rubble stones showing signs of excavation are similar to others near Loch Duntelchaig (See NH63SW 23, 32 and 39).
Visited by OS (A A) 23 April 1970.

Our extended area of survey around the pipeline corridor route centred on the site identified at least twenty four individual cairns, some of which had been heavily robbed and showed evidence for displaced stone slabs – possibly relating to disturbed central chambers. Other cairns also appear to have been modified into shielings, but a number of the cairns proved to be intact with no signs of, or with limited disturbance. Some of the stone mounds comprise relatively clean stone, while others are almost covered in low scrub vegetation including heather and blaeberry. Most of the cairns had a roughly circular ground plan, but at least one of the structures appeared to be the remains of a long cairn with a disturbed chamber in the wider SE end; the cairn measuring around 14 metres long and up to 5 metres wide. Other hollows within the top of the cairn material could be evidence of additional robbed out chambers, or from stone robbing.

The location of the cairns, sited within a hollow within the southeast side of the ridge forming Drumashie Moor is an unusual one for such monuments, having a more limited field of view over the surrounding landscape. However, along with other funerary monuments aligned over the high ground forming Drumashie Moor and on the higher ground to the southeast of Loch Ashie, the cairnfield site contributes significantly to a rich and diverse prehistoric landscape focused on the high ground to the southeast of Loch Ness and the Great Glen. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6243 3555 (306m by 368m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH63NW
Civil Parish	DORES
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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