MHG4429 - Loch Alvie
Summary
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Type and Period (2)
- BURIAL CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2400 BC? to 551 BC?)
- CIST (Bronze Age - 2400 BC? to 551 BC?)
Protected Status
- None recorded
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Full Description
A heather-covered cairn with a possible cist lies on flat ground on undulating moorland and is accompanied by field clearance heaps. The cairn measures 4.7m in overall diameter and 0.3m maximum height. Occasional kerbstones are visible on the W and S, the best preserved being 0.7m long and 0.2m high. The possible cist, apparently disturbed, consists of eight rounded boulders, enclosing an area approximately 0.4m by 0.3m, and two flat slabs which may have been capstones.
Extending 110m from the cairn to the ENE are the indistinct remains of up to fifteen field clearance cairns 4m in maximum diameter and 0.4 m high. No lynchets or field boundaries are evident. This site will probably be destroyed by the construction of the new road.
G Harden and D W Ross 1979 (see archive MS/179)
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 8611 0985 (16m by 16m) (2 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH80NE |
| Civil Parish | ALVIE |
| Geographical Area | BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY |
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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
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External Links (1)
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/14893 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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