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Latitude: 58.0858 / 58°5'8"N
Longitude: -4.986 / 4°59'9"W
OS Eastings: 224049
OS Northings: 914644
OS Grid: NC240146
Mapcode National: GBR G72C.0VX
Mapcode Global: WH28Y.C1Y6
Entry Name: Cnoc Bad na Cleithe,cairn 400m W of S end of Loch Awe
Scheduled Date: 1 January 1935
Last Amended: 4 March 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1807
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Assynt
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: North, West and Central Sutherland
Traditional County: Sutherland
A massive cairn on a N-facing slope. The cairn is 19.5m N-S by 20.5m E-W and is 2.5m high. There are a number of large slabs lying about, but no sign of either chamber or cist. The area to be scheduled measures 50m in diameter to include the cairn and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use will survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric burial and ceremonial practices. This is a particularly massive and impressive cairn.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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This monument is recorded in the RCAHMS as NC 21 SW 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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