MHG45081 - Harris, Rum

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Mutilated, in rough pasture, on raised beach, with a WSW aspect and an altitude of 30-40m OD.
SMR card.

Situated on the raised storm-beach SW of Harris there are five stony mounds.
A - NM 3419 9553. This cairn sits on the forward edge of the raised beach; it measures 11.5m in diameter by 0.9m in height and is surmounted by a modern cairn.
B - NM3419 9559. About 60m NNW of A there is a mound of stones 7.1m in diameter and 0.6m high.
C - NM 3412 9562. About 110m NW of A there is a stony mound 6.5m in diameter by 0.5m high which is surrounded by a ditch-like hollow. The mound sits on the line of a field bank which runs for a short distance to the NE and SW.
The dates and purpose of these mounds are uncertain; some may be prehistoric burial cairns while others may be clearance heaps.


NM39NW 3 3419 9552.

(NM 342 955) An oval cairn 32' x 30' and about 3' high in the centre, built of waterworn pebbles appreciably larger than the stones of the raised beach on which the cairn is built. On the seaward side the cairn is partly covered with turf; on the landward side, in the SE quadrant, two large depressions in the cairn material suggest deliberate disturbance. A much smaller cairn, presumably modern, of unweathered boulders, has been built on top.
G C David 1967

A cairn at NM 3419 9552 measuring 12.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, howked in two places in the S arc, generally as described by David. About 70 metres N at NM 3419 9560 is a mound of similar construction 6.5m in diameter and 0.4m high. Another mound of the same size, overgrown with peat, and with its centre howked lies about 60 metres NW at NM 3413 9562. A rubble wall extends SW from its SW side. Neither of these two mounds can be positively identified as cairns.
Visited by OS (AA) 14 May 1972

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Grid reference Centred NM 3413 9561 (14m by 14m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NM39NW
Civil Parish SMALL ISLES
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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