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Field Visit
Date 16 May 2005
Event ID 1105167
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105167
This cairn incorporates a ring of six upright stones and lies at the edge of an arable field in gently rolling ground. Now largely grass-grown, the cairn is flat-topped and measures 14.5m in diameter, ranging in height from 0.5m on the NE to 1.2m on the SW. The stones are all thick blocks and, with one exception on the SE, are set along the edge of the summit of the cairn. They appear to be graded in height, rising to 1.53m in height on the SW, where the external face of the tallest stone has been split vertically. Coles records this split on plan, together with what may be a kerbstone of an internal court, and he refers to the latter in his accompanying description of the site as ‘a single earth-fast narrow stone set on edge…in a position suggestive of its being a part of a central setting of about 6 feet in diameter’ (Coles 1902a, 524-6).
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW,ARG) 16 May 2005
