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The cairn is one of few surviving long cairns in
Northumberland. It is on the south-west slope of a hill, and is orientated north-north-east to south-south-west. It is constructed of rounded boulders with some stone slabs, and with smaller stones at the edges; it measures 60 by 14 metres (197 by
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Monuments such as this are thought to date from the Early to Middle
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46 ft), and is 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. There has been some later quarrying to make a sheep fold, which is next to the cairn on the north-west.
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