Earl's Cairn, Inkstack

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Earl's Cairn, Inkstack is a chambered tomb in Highland. The Albion Guide maps 49 chambered tombs in the county; this is one of them. For more of the same, Chambered cairn near Ham, Brough and Earney Hillock chambered cairn are close by. The nearest railway station is Georgemas Junction, 15 km to the south-west.

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