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Latitude: 57.5319 / 57°31'54"N
Longitude: -4.3897 / 4°23'22"W
OS Eastings: 257021
OS Northings: 851605
OS Grid: NH570516
Mapcode National: GBR H8JT.J00
Mapcode Global: WH3DW.JYWB
Entry Name: Kilcoy South,chambered cairn 700m NW of Kilcoy Castle
Scheduled Date: 9 March 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4650
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Location: Killearnan
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Dingwall and Seaforth
Traditional County: Ross-shire
The monument consists of the remains of a short horned chambered cairn bisected by a modern dyke. The well preserved chamber has three compartments and two entrance stones. The denuded cairn measures about 18m NS by 15m EW. The area to be scheduled includes the cairn and ground in which traces of activities associated with the construction and use of the cairn will survive but excludes the above-ground portions of the dyke; it measures 30m in diameter as shown in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because its chamber is a well preserved example of a polygonal Orkney-Cromarty type chamber with an additional cell and because the area will contain evidence of how the cairn was constructed and used and, through the pollen in the underlying old ground surface, of the vegetation and farming practices of the period immediately prior to its construction.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NH 55 SE 3.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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