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Field Visit
Date 13 November 1913
Event ID 1087219
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1087219
About 600 yards south of Eyebroughy, in a windswept gully bordered by sand dunes, is a group of small cairns on the 20 feet raised beach, the nearest being about 50 yards from high watermark. Two roughly parallel rows of these cairns stretch in an easterly direction for 20yards, the rows being in no place more than 3 feet apart. Five cairns at least are seen in the southern row and six in the adjoining row. Several more appear to the south-west, but many of these have been disturbed.
Farther to the east in the same gully a drystone wall is built in a tortuous line disappearing into and reappearing from the base of the sand dunes. Probably it may have been a wall enclosing the point of land opposite Eyebroughy, as the end of a similar wall is seen on a sand-hill some distance eastward on the shore. To the south-east of the wall numerous fragments of green glazed pottery (? mediaeval) have been found.
In a hollow to the south-west is a small circular cairn chiefly composed of small stones with a few of larger size intermixed, 12 feet in diameter and 1 foot in height. It has a small hollow on the summit and probably has been robbed.
Some distance to the west are the remains of other small cairns, which were excavated in 1902. Some of these contained a cist, in which fragments of pottery were found; but apparently they had been previously disturbed. One undisturbed cairn was found to cover an oval-shaped grave about 4 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth and 3 feet in depth, built of moderately sized stones. Three adult human skeletons were found on the floor. Outside the northern end of the grave but under the cairn four human skulls and other skeletal remains were found. About 300 yards south-west of this place a kitchen midden was examined in 1908. Many fragments of pottery, apparently of the Bronze Age, were found, as well as a few implements of flint and bone. Portions of red deer horns, fragments of bones of various animals, pieces of crab-claws and many shells were recovered. Whelks and limpets greatly predominated, but oysters and mussels were well represented.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 13 November 1913.
Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., XXXVI., p. 654, xlii., p. 308 ff.
OS map ref.: ii. S.W. and ii. N.W.
