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Cairn

Cairn, clearance cairn

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Kye holds two cairns: a small clearance heap where a cross-slab once stood and a larger oval mound born from lake drainage. The larger one measures thirty-six metres north to south, twenty-eight and a half east to west, with a levelled top twenty-three by fourteen and a half metres. It rises beside Pollacat Well, near a second cairn and an earthwork, on ground that was once water. The cluster suggests repeated use across centuries, though no written account preserves the hands that shaped it.
Towards the bottom of a S-facing slope. A grass-covered cairn (dims 5m E-W; 2.7m N-S; H 0.55m), probably a clearance cairn, is where the cross-slab (RO040-014002-) was kept. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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