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Field Visit
Date 12 June 1913
Event ID 1089085
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1089085
232. Bell Cairn, Table Rings, Penshiel Hill.
On a gentle slope on the north-east shoulder of Penshiel Hill, about 1000 yards south-west of Kingside School, at an elevation of over 1000 feet above sea-level, is a circular cairn of stones surrounded by a broad trench with an earthen bank outside, a typical bell cairn, marked Table Rings on the O.S. map. The cairn is almost flat on the top with a very slight hollow in the centre, as if some slight excavation had been attempted, and it is built not exactly in the centre of the saucer like excavation, but rather nearer the north western and western arcs of the enclosing bank. The trench has been excavated to a depth varying from 2 feet on the south-west to 1 foot 3 inches on the north-east, and the bank varies from 9 inches in height above outside level on the south-west to 1 foot 6 inches on the north-east to allow for the slope of the hill and keep the top of the enclosing bank about level. The whole structure is nearly circular, the external diameters varying only 3 feet. From north-west to south-east the diameter over all is 96 feet and from north-east to south-west 93 feet. The bank varies in width from 6 feet on the north-west and north-east to 7 feet on the south-west and 8 feet on the south-east, while it rises about 2 feet 9 inches above the bottom of the trench, which is 21 feet broad at the northwest, 22 feet at the south-west, 27 feet at the south-east and 25 feet at the north-east. The cairn is 34 feet in diameter at the base and 24 feet at the top from north-west to south-east, 31 feet at the base and 22 feet at the top from north-east to south-west, and it rises 4 feet 3 inches above the bottom of the trench.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 12 June 1913.
OS Map: xvi. S.E.
