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MHG6498 - Carn Ban

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Carn Ban (NR)
OS 1" map, (7th series)

Carn Ban, the remains of a large circular cairn measuring 52ft in diameter. Almost levelled to the ground, the circumference is outlined by a kerb or large stones set on edge.
RCAHMS 1928.

Carn Ban as described by RCAHMS. The kerb can be traced from the NW side through E to the S side, and a single stone remains on the SW side.
On the WNW of the cairn two large stones at right angles to the peristalith (? portal stones), suggest the cairn may originally have been chambered.
It is in poor condition, nowhere more than 1.0m in height and is surrounded by a number of ruined houses.
Visited by OS (A S P) 25 April 1961.

Not a chambered cairn, but remains of a dun (or possibly a broch), mutilated and robbed for later settlement. The outer and inner faces of a wall varying between 3 - 3.5m in thickness, with an internal diameter of between 10 - 11m. The entrance passage (0.7m in width) lies at the NW.
A circular structure some 2m in diameter and with a wall thickness of 0.8m sits in the northern quadrant of the interior, and is probably of a later date. Similarly hollows within the interior seem to be of a later date to the defensive works. Later rectangular buildings to the E, W and N and stone dykes, have probably absorbed some of the original fabric.
Visited by R Miket 15 April 1988.

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Grid reference	Centred NG 4874 6825 (80m by 80m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG46NE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	KILMUIR

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