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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Fordoun
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Kincardineshire

Archaeology Notes

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.

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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)

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