Field Visit
Date July 1971
Event ID 1121289
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Cairns, Cairn Table.
Two cairns are situated at a height of 592.5 m on the summit of Cairn Table. They stand in a conspicuous position on the line of the
Ayrshire-Lanarkshire county boundary and overlook the source of the Duneaton Water to the SE. The E cairn, which measures 16m in diameter and 3.5m in height, appears to be relatively undisturbed. Two bronze armlets, found together under a boulder on its E margin, are preserved in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland; their date and affinities are discussed in the RCAHMS 1978 p.14. The other cairn, 30 m to the WSW, has been heavily robbed to provide material for a modern memorial cairn near by, and now measures about 12 m in diameter and not more than 1 m in height; an OS triangulation station has been erected on it.
RCAHMS 1978, visited July 1971
NS 724 242
