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Field Visit
Date 9 February 2017
Event ID 1025089
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1025089
A re-examination of what remains of this cairn has disclosed four earthfast kerbstones about 2.5m NNE of the large erratic. These equate with those shown on the SW arc in Thom's published plan, counting S from the stone marked '4' (Thom, Thom and Burl 1980, 234-5) and with those labelled L, K, J and I in his notebook (Ms430/26). Although one of these stones (K) lies just off the arc, the remainder suggest that the diameter of the cairn was not less than 20m. This can be compared with Thom's estimate of 84ft (25.5m), based upon 13 kerbstones covering the whole of the W half of the cairn and Coles' estimate of 80-90ft (24m-27.5m) (Coles 1902-3, 138-40). The interior of the cairn not only remains heavily overburdened with field clearance, but also dumps of earth and uprooted tree stumps. In addition, there is an open rubbish pit part-filled with metal refuse to the WSW of the cairn and about 9m NNW of the erratic. The erratic appears to have been incorporated in an old field bank running from E to W. This suggests that the shallow hollow immediately to its N did not result from its excavation (pace Welfare 2011, 501), but rather from exploratory digging.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW and AMcC), 9 February 2017.
