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Field Visit
Date 7 July 1999
Event ID 1104990
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1104990
What may be the remains of a cairn surrounded by a stone circle are situated at the edge of a field overlooking the Parsonage Burn. The cairn is now reduced to a low flat-topped grass-grown mound spread up to 17m from NW to SE by 13.5m transversely, and on the W, where it is best preserved, its sides are sharp and steep. The E half has been disturbed by stone robbing and several mature beech trees grow on top of the mound. Of the surrounding circle only two stones are still in place, standing on the SW at the foot of the mound. The base of a third can be seen on the E, lying prone and partly obscured by the roots of two of the beech trees, and a fourth, of pink granite, stands on the mound’s summit, set off-centre to the S and held in place by two packing stones; it is unlikely that this stone is in its original position. Beyond the lip of the gully, about 20m from the mound, there is a fifth stone lying on the steep S-facing slope that may too derive from the circle.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW,ARG) 7 July 1999
