Field Visit
Date 6 May 2009
Event ID 590339
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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This cairn is situated in an arable field 270m S of Scalpsie farmsteading. It has been very heavily robbed and it is not now possible to distinguish its perimeter within an irregularly-shaped stony area measuring about 46m from NE to SW by 32m transversely. On the NW side of this area, amongst stones and boulders that have been cleared off the surrounding field, is a vertically set slab which may be part of a cist, possibly the one described around 1863 (OS Name Book, Buteshire No.7, p.92). A large hollow, measuring about 8m across, which has been cut into in the SW edge of the cairn may represent the remains of a building.
The area in which the cairn lies is depicted as an irregularly-shaped uncultivated patch of grass surrounded by arable fields on May's estate map of Scalpsie and Quien farms, dated 1781. The cairn is identified and depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, sheet CCXV).
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 6 May 2009.
