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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 644770
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/644770
HY41NW 3 4131 1866 and 4140 1855.
(Area : HY 414 186) A mound not more than 2ft high lies about 200 yds south of the more easterly of the Knowes of Euro (HY41NW 5). In the centre can be seen, protruding through the turf, the sides and one end-slab of a cist about 23 ins square.
A little over 100 yds to the south, close together, are two other low mounds, 21 and 23ft in diameter. Both have been dug into, but the slight excavations are now heather-covered.
There are traces suggestive of other mounds in the neighbourhood.
RCAHMS 1946.
There is a barrow, c.7.5m in diameter, at HY 4131 1866. It is as described by the Commission, except that only the two side-slabs of the cist can now be seen.
The site of a possible barrow can be seen as a shapeless mound, perhaps 8.0m in diameter, at HY 4140 1855.
There is no trace of any other mound in the area.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(RL) 12 June 1967.
