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Field Visit
Date 22 March 1990
Event ID 1111504
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1111504
This long cairn is situated on the rounded crest of Newton Hill. The cairn is not set on the summit of the hill, however, but lies on the gentle N slope, with its broad end on the crest and its narrower end extending down the slope to the W. Overall it measures 35m in length and tapers from 19m across the horns at the E end to 9.5m on the W, and the height of the mound decreases correspondingly from 1.8m to 0.6m.
One trench has been driven down the axis of the cairn from the forecourt, a second along the central section of the N side and a third across the axis of the cairn about 10m from the W end. These excavations, described by Henshall as unfinished (1963, 392) are apparently unpublished. The setting of the cairn suggests that its builders intended that the E end should be on the skyline when viewed from the valley of the River Deveron to the E.
Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 22 March 1990.
