Database Update

Date 30 August 2009

Event ID 578913

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/578913

This cairn has been heavily robbed and some of the stones appear to have been broken deliberately, yet enough of the kerb remains to suggest that it has been square on plan. Kerbstones survive at three of the four corners, those on the S and W corners being roughly triangular with pointed tops; the third, on the E, is the last of three small boulders forming the shallow facade on the SE. The tallest stone on the facade leans slightly inwards and marks the NE side of the narrow entrance passage leading to an oval chamber. Three substantial orthostats stand beyond this, rising high above the present surface of the cairn and slightly off-set to the SW. Their arrangement is perplexing, leading Henshall to suppose that they belong to the ‘E side of large chamber on a different axis’ approached by an oval shaped ante chamber.

Visited by RCAHMS (ARG,SPH) 30 August 2009