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is 3’.8” long. 3’ wide and 7” thick. The diameter of
the cairn is about 45 ft [feet]: its height 5 ft. [feet].
About 30 ft [feet] N.W. [North West] are the remains of a similar
cairn partially removed. A large thin slab
protruding to the S. [South] of the remaining heap of
stones probably marks the site of a cist. Height
about 4 ft. [feet] dia. [diameter] of present cairn, which is probably
about half the original, 24 ft. [feet].
About 1/4 m. [mile] N. [North] of the Achargary burn is a
group of small cairns extending from the
road side to 80 or 100 yds. [yards] W. [West] of it.

[Margin] Unnoted

Across the Naver about 1/4 m. [mile] S. [South] of the bridge
over the Allt na Caisteal on the road to Skelpick
is another group of a score or more cairns.
[Margin] Are these the same as on p. [page] 58?

Rhinovie The N. [North] cairn shows a single poly:
:gonal chamber half filled with stones.
It appears also to have been horned but as
it has been so much pillaged probably for
the old dykes which pass close by its N. [North] end
the indications are not very definite. About 8’
to the E. [East] of the entrance to the passage, presumably
in the centre is a large stone lying mostly on
its edge exposed for a length of 5 ft. [feet] it is 2 ft. [feet]
across & lies with its pointed end N.W. [North West].
About 25 ft. [feet] N.E. [North East] the head of another large
stone protrudes. On the W. [West] side there is

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