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St Ringan's Cairn
Cairn (Early Medieval)
Site Name St Ringan's Cairn
Classification Cairn (Early Medieval)
Canmore ID 36070
Site Number NO67NE 18
NGR NO 6549 7944
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36070
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fordoun
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO67NE 18 6549 7944.
(NO 6549 7944) St Ringan's Cairn (NR) (Cross found 1965) (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)
St Ringan's Cairn: A collection of small stones beside the Military Road (Lin 516). There is no tradition connected with it.
Name Book 1863.
The remains of a mound of small stones about 12.0m in diameter, reduced to ground level by excavating for road material in 1965 when a fragment of a cross slab (NO67NE 15, q.v.) was found in its centre. Its situation and the size of the stones are against it being a Bronze Age cairn, and the finding of the cross suggests it was a mount for this cross. Surveyed at 1:10560.
Visited by OS (A A) 11 November 1971.
Field Visit (December 1981)
St Ringan's Cairn NO 654 794 NO67NE 15 & 18
St Ringan's Cairn is situated to the E of the Military Road over the Cairn o' Mount Pass at a height of 330m OD. It measures 8.5m in diameter and 0.4m in height; stone-robbing in 1964 revealed a cross-base and part of a 'Pictish' cross-slab.
RCAHMS 1982, visited December 1981
(DES, 1965, 24; Small 1974)