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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cnoc Na H-uiseig Alternative Name: Lower Dounreay, The Fairies Mound, The Lairacks HillockCountry: Scotland County: Caithness Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Village: Lower Dounreay
Map Ref: NC99696772
Latitude: 58.585852N Longitude: 3.727079W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Chambered Cairn in Caithness. 'Lower Dounreay' or 'Cnoc na Huseig' (A S Henshall 1963), 'The Fairies Mound', 'The Lairacks Hillock' of 'Cnoc na h-Uiseig' (A J H Edwards 1929) is an Orkney-Cromarty short horned cairn, excavated in 1928 by Edwards.
Across the centre between the horns it measured about 58ft and along the horns 70ft. In 1910 part of a surrounding wall-face of thin horizontal slabs could be seen on the E side of the NE horn (RCAHMS 1911); in 1958 a small section could be seen along the NE side (A S Henshall 1963). The entrance was between the horns on the SE side. The irregularly-shaped chamber with a rounded end was carefully built of courses of small slabs, divided and strengthened by eight upright projecting slabs set into the walls.
Among the debris of flat slabs which filled the chamber a secondary long cist had been constructed, 3ft below the surface of the cairn and lying NNE-SSW obliquely across the innermost compartment.
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