WoSAS Pin: 66089

Site Name: Lower Ranachan

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Monument Type: Cairn

Council: Argyll and Bute

Parish: Campbeltown

Map Sheet: NR72SW

Grid Reference: 170100, 624700 NGR from Woodley Report

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Site Report

WoSAS Pin 66089
NR 7010 2470

A possible long cairn lies at a fencing T-junction close to the track to High Park farm, ENE of Lower Ranachan. It may be Neolithic because its location exhibits a 'disappearing hills' effect; as you walk downslope alongside the structure, the hills disappear in a way that is exactly equivalent to the effect at the long cairn at Carloway, which is set at the limit of visisbility of the 'sleeping beauty' mountain on Lewis.
Woodley, H., 16/04/11

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