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Cairn ? Drumfern.
About 1/2 m. [mile] NE. [North East] of the sheep rees just at the
base of a steep slope and some 300 yds. [yards] due
N. [North] of the cairn beside the stone circle is
another cairn larger and more prominent
than the foregoing. It measures some
34' in diameter and about 4' in elevation
There is evidence on the top that in the past
some excavation has been done on it but it
is doubtful if the interment has been reached.

Small cairns
About 80 to 100 yds. [yards] up the slope to the NE [North East] of
the last is a considerable group of small
cairns with diameters of from 12' to 16' & elevation of about 2'. One
oblong heap of stones measured 19' by 7' and
had an elevation of about 11/2'. The sepulchral
character of the last is doubtful .

Chambered Long Cairn The Nappers.
Immediately in rear of the shepherd's cottage
and garden at "the Nappers", a rocky ridge
forming the highest point of the moorland, are
the remains of a chambered long cairn.
It lies with its main axis (E and W.[East and West] magnetic) almost E SE [East South East] to WNW [West North West].
In form it appears to have been
elliptical measuring 80' in extreme length,
about 37' in breadth at the W. [West] end, 44', near the centre and
as far as ascertainable from 30' to 35' at the
E [East] end. From the E [East] extremity inwards for
some 40' it has been greatly pillaged for

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stones and in consequence its outline in that
direction is not ascertainable with accuracy. At
some 8' inwards from the presumed Eastern ter:
:mination set in the mesial line are two par:
:allel rows of slabs, 2'.4" apart with fair regul:
:arity which have formed the sides of a chamber.
10'.8" in length. The N. [North] side is formed of two slabs
6'.5" and 3'.1" in length respectively, and the S. [South]
side of three slabs the longest of which is 5'.3".
The greatest height exposed above ground is
2'.8". and the thickest slab measures 1'.3" in thickness.
At 16' further on into the cairn, almost at the
centre, and at right angles to the main axis
are indications of other two chambers in align:
:ment. On the N. [North] side Three protruding slabs, two on one side
and one on the other are set 2'.3" apart and
indicate a chamber about 10' in length com:
:mencing some 8' in from the edge of the cairn
and extending inwards across the mesial line.
The chamber entering from the S. [South] side is
evidenced also by three slabs, the edges of
which just project above the debris ,
two on one side and one on the other 2' apart.
The indicated length of this chamber is also
10' and the first visible slab occurs at 5'
in from the edge of the cairn.

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