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Latitude: 57.8799 / 57°52'47"N
Longitude: -4.0729 / 4°4'22"W
OS Eastings: 277166
OS Northings: 889708
OS Grid: NH771897
Mapcode National: GBR J79W.YX0
Mapcode Global: WH4DM.D6QK
Entry Name: Davochfin,chambered cairn 700m NNW of
Scheduled Date: 9 December 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5493
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Location: Dornoch
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: East Sutherland and Edderton
Traditional County: Sutherland
This monument consists of the remains of a chambered cairn situated in a forestry plantation. The chambered cairn measures about 17m N-S by 14m E-W and survives to a maximum height of about 1.5m. Near the centre of the cairn the top of an upright slab, lying E-W, is exposed. At the SE of the cairn is another, leaning, slab with a N-S axis. A third slab just inside the S edge of the cairn is aligned N-S.
These stones suggest the location of the chamber of the chambered cairn. Some damage has occurred to the N part of the cairn through stone quarrying earlier this century.
The area to be scheduled is 40m in diameter, to include the chambered cairn and an area around in which traces of activities associated with the construction and use of the cairn may survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for its potential contribution to an understanding of prehistoric ritual and burial practices.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NH 78 NE 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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