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Field Visit
Date May 2019
Event ID 1108706
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1108706
NO20NW 144 24415 06203
A cairn on the summit of East Lomond measures 13m in diameter and 1m high. It has been previously been interpreted as the remains of either a prehistoric burial (OS 1968; Walker and Ritchie 1987, No. 90) or a dun (O’Grady 2014, 4). Careful observation demonstrates that this cairn is set on the ENE part of another that measures about 17m in diameter and 0.7m in height.
Both cairns have been heavily disturbed by the erection of a succession of triangulation stations that included a ‘stone 4 feet (1.2m) long and 13 inches (0.3m) square sunk in the ground’ in 1818 as part of the OS Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, as well as ‘a pile of turf 12 feet (3.7m) high, with a diameter of 16 feet (4.9m)’ in 1841 (Clarke and James 1858, 18). Now removed, the latter of these is clearly visible on a vertical aerial photograph taken in 1946 (106G/Scot/UK/0051/4403), which also shows the viewfinder that had been unveiled 18 years earlier (The Scotsman, 8 October 1928, p.7) and the triangulation pillar on the lower plateau (NO 2444 0609), erected in 1943.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (ATW, LB, AM) May 2019
