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Latitude: 58.518 / 58°31'4"N
Longitude: -3.618 / 3°37'4"W
OS Eastings: 305850
OS Northings: 960004
OS Grid: ND058600
Mapcode National: GBR K6F6.PG6
Mapcode Global: WH5BW.D5DD
Entry Name: Torr Bann Na Gruagaich,chambered cairn
Scheduled Date: 30 November 1933
Last Amended: 9 December 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM489
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: long cairn
Location: Halkirk
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Thurso and Northwest Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
The monument consists of a prehistoric long cairn which is about 42m long and up to 19m wide, with a prominent round mound situated at its
N end. This round mound is a round cairn, about 19m in diameter and
1.8m high, which appears to have been opened and robbed in the
centre. The stones of an entrance passageway and of a two-compartment chamber are visible from the top of the round mound. The remaining section of the long cairn is a maximum of 0.5m high and has been disturbed to the S by ploughing connected with forestry planting.
Stones which have probably been removed from the cairn have been used
in the construction of a building, the foundations of which stand to
the SE end of the round cairn.
The area to be scheduled measures a maximum of 60m S-N by 50m W-E, to include the long cairn and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive, as shown in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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