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Remains of a probable ring-cairn with a surrounding stone circle, formerly identified simply as a burial-cairn. It is situated on a promontory 400m northeast of Blairno. The cairn is described by the OS as a small cairn situated on the edge of a spur and composed wholly of small stones now overgrown with grass and gorse. It measures 9.2m in diameter and 1.0m in height, and is bounded by a kerb of large stones, some of which are erect, the highest being 0.7m. A slight hollow in its centre probably denotes an early excavation. The OS Name Book (1861) records that a number of small stones lie scattered around the site. When visited by the RCAHMS in 1989, the ring-cairn was described as 'measuring about 9.5m in overall diameter by 0.5m in maximum height and there is a shallow depression at its centre. No inner kerbstones are visible, but at least five outer kerbstones survive in situ, all on the south and west arcs, and numerous others lie displaced around the edge of the cairn. The four largest kerbstones probably formed a setting on the south-southwest side of the cairn. Originally this setting comprised two slabs set in a line immediately back from two flanking blocks (about 0.7m high), but one of the slabs (1.5m by 1.2m) has been pulled forwards out of position. All that is visible of the surrounding stone circle is a leaning slab 0.75m high on the northeast, and a recumbent slab 1.5m long on the southeast'.
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NO56NW0014 - BRIDGEND OF LETHNOT