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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Fiscary A (Farr) Alternative Name: Carn Chaoile; Henshall SUT 29; SwordlyCountry: Scotland
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County: Sutherland Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Village: Farr
Map Ref: NC7310262629
Latitude: 58.533208N Longitude: 4.181215W
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Chambered Cairn in Sutherland
Canmore ID 6445 records both Fiscary A and Fiscary B cairns, which are immediately next to each other, A being the northernmost cairn and B the southern. Each cairn is different, so they are recorded here as two separate sites.
A, the northernmost, and chambered, cairn, is described by Canmore as: "'an Orkney-Cromarty type, round cairn with a Camster type tripartite chamber (Henshall 1963), and was excavated by Kerr in 1891. It is free of vegetation and measures 16.0m in diameter and 1.5m high. The centre is mutilated but it is still possible to identify the tops of eight upright slabs of the chamber, which was entered from the WSW. the entrance passage has collapsed ... The N end of 'A' has traces of three faced steps within the cairn material and parallel with the outer edge of the cairn ... Both cairns (A and B) would appear to have been enclosed within a large trapezoidal cairn."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page on this cairn, which it refers to as Fiscary 1 - see their entry for Fiscary (1), Farr, Sutherland. The TNA page has directions for finding the site together with photographs, a brief archaeology & history, a ground plan and local folklore.
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