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Field Visit

Date 30 May 1913

Event ID 1089088

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1089088

231. Cairns, Kingside Hill.

Half a mile north-east of Mayshiel near the foot of the western slope of Kingside Hill, about 150 yards south [sic] of the Gifford and Priestlaw road and some 100 yards east of the cart track between Mayshiel and Johnscleugh, are two circular cairns. The most southerly is 36 feet in diameter and 3 ½ feet in height; the second, 143 feet to the north-north-east is 28 feet in diameter and 2 ½ feet in height. Both show signs of excavation on the top.

RCAHMS 1924, visited 30 May 1913.

OS Map ref: xvi. S.E. (unnoted) [sic].

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