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Field Visit
Date 2 August 1927
Event ID 1099339
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1099339
Cairn, Drumglow.
A cairn lies within the defences of the fort, on the crest of Drumglow Hill. It has a diameter of 50 feet and rises to a height of about 5 ½ feet. It was examined in 1904, when a portion of a hollowed out tree-trunk of oak, measuring 7 feet 1 inch by 11 inches at the broadest part, was discovered in the centre at a depth of 6 feet 7 inches from the top of the cairn. "Although itis not quite certain, it is highly probable that under the Dumglow mound we have an instance of tree-coffin burial" (1). The situation of this cairn within the precincts of a fort is a feature of special interest. A bronze-age cairn was noted within the fortifications on Birrenswark or Burnswork Hill, Dumfriesshire (2).
RCAHMS 1933, visited 2 August 1927.
Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxxix (1904-5), pp.179-81. (2) Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Dumfries, p. 98.
