Field Visit
Date July 1968
Event ID 1183425
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1183425
NN 032 593. This cairn stands in a Forestry Commission plantation some 135m SE of Craigallan Cottage. It measures about 2.1m in height and has a diameter of about 6m at the base. Although evidently repaired and repointed in lime mortar fairly recently, the cairn appears to have been in existence at least as early as 1770 (Forbes, Journals, 132). It bears a modern metal plaque containing the inscription: THIS CAIRN IS ERECTED / ON THE SPOT WHERE / COLIN CAMPBELL / OF GLENURE / WAS MURDERED ON / 14TH MAY 1752.
RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1968
For the circumstances of the Appin Murder, see MacArthur, W, The Appin Murder (1960) and Mackay, D N, Trial of James of Stewart (1907).
