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Note
Date 1980
Event ID 1136665
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1136665
King Schaw's Grave, Bank Head Hill NY 259 932 NY29SE 3
A cist, situated in a forestry plantation, marks the site of this cairn which measured 16.5m in diameter and probably had a boulder kerb at the time of its destruction in 1828. Beneath the cairn there were 'rows of stones overlapping each other like the slating of a house', which radiated 'in the form of a St Andrew's cross' from the corners of a central cist containing a crouched inhumation; fragmentary bones were strewn about between the arms of the cross, and at the end of at least one arm there was a cist.
RCAHMS 1980
(Name Book, Dumfries, No. 53, p. 12; Wilson 1863, i, 88-9; RCAHMS 1920, p. 218, No. 648)
