MHG4038 - Loch Nan Eala

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CAIRN (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2401 BC)

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NM68NE0006OR01.pdf — Sites and Monuments Record Card © Highland Council. id: 116000 (click to open this file in a new window)

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NM68NE 6 666 855.

Cairn(s) at the edge of a field on a tree-covered knoll 100m S of Loch nan Eala. The knoll, to which has been added field clearance material, measures approximately 30.48m in diameter and 1.20m in height. Exposed by an upturned tree root is a cremation/charcoal pit measuring 1.52m x 0.61m x 0.38m in the centre of the area.
I Thorber 1974, 40.

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--- SHG208 Text/Publication/Article: Thorber, I. 1974. 'Arisaig, cairn, cairn, crannog', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1974, p.40. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 40. 40 (cairn).

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Grid reference	Centred NM 6660 8549 (14m by 14m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM68NE
Civil Parish	ARISAIG AND MOIDART
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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