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Latitude: 58.1797 / 58°10'46"N
Longitude: -3.5465 / 3°32'47"W
OS Eastings: 309148
OS Northings: 922244
OS Grid: ND091222
Mapcode National: GBR K7M3.D4M
Mapcode Global: WH5DG.HNFR
Entry Name: Cnoc Bad Asgaraidh, chambered cairn 570m E of, Langwell
Scheduled Date: 9 October 1934
Last Amended: 1 March 2000
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM423
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Location: Latheron
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
The monument comprises a prehistoric chambered burial cairn, situated about 10m E of the Allt Bad Asgaraidh. It is already scheduled, but an inadequate area was included to protect all of the area of archaeological importance, hence this extension.
The cairn is about 16m E-W by 12m N-S overall. Much of the cairn material has been removed, and the chamber is exposed at the E end of the cairn. It is sub-divided into two by upright stones. At the E, the cairn abuts a stone wall of much more recent date, and a turf and stone bank runs N-S across the centre of the cairn. Both probably incorporate stone removed from the cairn.
The area now to be scheduled is circular, 40m in diameter, to include the cairn, portions of the wall and bank, and an area around in which evidence relating to construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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