Field Visit
Date May 1969
Event ID 1172900
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1172900
NM 939 280. This cairn, is situated beside the River Lonan a little less than 1km NW of the ruined steading of Clachadow. It appears at present as a grass-grown mound 18.3 m in diameter and 1.9 m in height; in the centre there is a shallow depression, which contains, embedded in the turf, a flat slab measuring 1.22 m by 0.76 m and at least 0.15m in thickness. Smith records (PSAS, x, 87) that, when the slab was raised during the 1870s, it was found to have served as the capstone of a cist, which measured internally 0.91m in length, 0.50m in breadth and 0.63m in depth. The cist itself was nearly filled with earth, which contained a few small fragments of human bone but no grave-goods of any kind.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1969.
