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In the foreground are the side slabs of the northeastern chamber. In the centre background are the stones of the southwestern chamber. Large Image (132kb 801x620) |
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The side slabs of the northeastern chamber, looking east. Large Image (214kb 842x648) |
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The stones of the southwestern chamber, looking to the northwest. Large Image (102kb 843x648) |
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One of the stones of the southwestern chamber. Large Image (89kb 827x656) |
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The back stone of the southwestern chamber. Large Image (133kb 579x575) |
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The stones of the southwestern chamber, looking south. Large Image (116kb 679x632) |
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One of the portal stones of the southwestern chamber, looking west. Large Image (105kb 743x622) |
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Another stone of the southwestern chamber. Large Image (146kb 842x648) |
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One of the portal stones of the southwestern chamber, looking east. Large Image (136kb 842x648) |
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The backstone of the southwestern chamber. Large Image (69kb 642x640) |
This chambered long cairn stands on a low rocky knoll in what was a forestry commission plantation, although the trees have been recently cleared.
Although almost all the cairn material has been robbed away, it is thought that the cairn would have originally been about one hundred feet long running northeast-southwest with a chamber at each end.
The two chambers were excavated between 1963 and 1965, before the forest was planted. Three megaliths of the southwest chamber remain, indicating that the chamber was about 14 feet long. The side slabs of the northeast chamber remain, and that would have been about 17 feet by 3 feet in floor area.
Both chambers were divided into an inner and outer portion. The rim of a neolithic pot and some other small finds were discovered in the northeastern chamber, and part of a flint knife was found in the southwestern chamber.