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Excavation
Date 1967
Event ID 1121305
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1121305
FALL HILL, CRAWFORD, LANARKSHIRE NS 964 217.
Examination by Mr G. S. Maxwell of a ring-ditched site on the shoulder of Fall Hill revealed the presence of a low cairn about 10 ft in diameter and attaining originally perhaps 2 ft in height within an annular ditch measuring 12 ft in internal diameter; the ditch was on average 16 in deep by 4 ft wide. The cairn had been constructed over a steep-sided subrectangular pit, but both cairn and pit had been extensively disturbed. In the loose, tumbled filling of the pit several fragments of crude pottery, a whetstone and two corroded iron objects were discovered. Evidence indicated that a pyre had been built on the site before the cairn was built or the ditch dug, but after a shallow grave had been hollowed out on the very margin of the excavated area. Publication will be in Volume I of the Lanarkshire Inventory.
Information from RCAHMS (DES 1967, 58-9)
