Field Visit
Date 10 July 1930
Event ID 1125108
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1125108
This mound, which is situated on a tiny low-lying promontory at the NE corner of the northernmost of the Lochs of Beosetter, has been noted on the OS map as two separate monuments (Fig. 24) . It measures approximately 70 ft in length by 40 to 45 ft in width, and varies in height from 5 ft at the E, end to 7 ft on the W. side. It has been partially excavated in a rough and ready way on the NW and SE, and at both places interesting discoveries were made. On the SE, where some haphazard digging was carried out many years ago, it is said that a rude cist-like structure was exposed high up on the mound, but, unfortunately, it has been torn out, and the hollow which indicates its position is now, like most of the mound, covered with a coating of fine short turf. On the NW, where a considerable portion has been carted away for road metal, fragments of pottery showing the rim and base sections of a flat-bottomed steatite vessel were found at the time of visit embedded in the burnt material of which the mound is constructed. These fragments are now preserved in the National Museum.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 10 July 1930.
OS map ref.: liii & liiiA ("Tumuli").
