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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Allt SgiathaigCountry: Scotland
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County: Sutherland Type: Chambered Cairn
Map Ref: NC23412552
Latitude: 58.183067N Longitude: 5.005075W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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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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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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The cairn is placed on a knoll at about 500' OD on a steep moorland hillside. It has a diameter of 35' and a height of c. 4'. Two slabs on its N edge have the appearance of being kerb stones, while the cairn seems to have spread to the NE and SW beyond its original limits. The NW side has been severely robbed and all traces of the passage, which apparently entered the chamber from this side, have probably been destroyed.
The chamber is partly ruined and filled with large slabs and debris. Two upright slabs on the W side, one slightly displaced forwards, are exposed to a height of nearly 3' and probably represent the portal stones between the passage and chamber. Two verticial but lower stones and two stretches of walling on the E side indicate a chamber c. 7' long by c. 5' wide.
Road improvements have caused the ground to be cut away to the very edge of the cairn on the NW side.
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