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Field Visit
Date April 1976
Event ID 1125049
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1125049
The rest of the cairns [on Swaites Hill] lie NW of a long wall which runs across Swaites Hill from NE to SW, marking for part of its course the boundary between the parishes of Covington and Pettinain, Because of the thick growth of heather that covers the NW end of the hill, the cairns in this area are difficult to see, particularly the small ones.
(4) Situated in a bare patch among the heather 135 m NW of the junction of the wall and a wire fence running S from it, at 955 411, there are the last vestiges of a cairn measuring 9 m in diameter and not more than 0.2 m in height.
(5) Situated 155 m NNW of (4), at NS 954 412, there is a pair of cairns, 5.5 m apart and heavily overgrown, each measuring 7.3 m in diameter and about 0.3 m in height,
(6) About 60 m further to the NNW, at NS 954 412, is a cairn measuring 12 m in diameter and 0.3 m in height.
(7) [see NS94SE 16] At NS 951 413 there are the slight remains of a cairn measuring 12 m in diameter. The centre has been almost totally removed, leaving only a low stony rim 0.5 m high,
(8) Scattered here and there along the NW end of the hill, some of them interspersed among the cairns already mentioned, there are at least another eighteen cairns, all considerably smaller, measuring between 3.5 m and 5.5 m in diameter and from 0.3 m to 0.7 m in height,
RCAHMS 1978, visited April 1976.
