Field Visit
Date 4 August 1931
Event ID 1130309
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Cairn (?), Sae Breck, Esha Ness.
On the summit of the hill overlooking the site of the Cross Kirk at Esha Ness, and at an elevation of 205 ft. above sea-level, is a much dilapidated construction, perhaps representing a cairn but apparently utilised as a station by the Ordnance surveyors at some fairly recent date. The central mound stands about 8 ft. 6 in. above the bottom of an enclosing ditch, outside of which again there has been a circular bank with a diameter of II2 ft. from crest to crest. Except along the E. side, where the ground slopes steeply downwards and where the outer face has accordingly been strengthened by a series of large stones set end to end, the bank has apparently been of earth. It is nowhere more than from 18 in. to 2 ft. high, but that it was originally a good deal higher is evident from the debris, which here and there extends over a width of as much as 16 ft.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 4 August 1931.
