View N of a prehistoric burial cairn cut by improvements to the former A856 (now A87) SE of Kensaleyre & the River Haultin, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK

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View N of a prehistoric burial cairn cut by improvements to the former A856 (now A87) SE of Kensaleyre & the River Haultin, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK. A fence has been erected over the cairn & about a third of its diameter has been lost on the W. Old road surface is visible on the verge in the foreground. Kensaleyre North Cairn is part of a Neolithic & Bronze Age ritual & funerary complex of cairns & standing stones centred on NG 425506, E of the A87 & just SE of the B8036 junction.

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Size: 3787px × 2652px
Location: Kensaleyre Cairns, Snizort, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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