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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645305
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645305
HY32NE 22 383 299.
(Area : HY 383 299) A group of three mounds, at least one of which contains a cist, lies on the summit of Ward Hill.
One of the mounds was excavated by W.G.Grant in about 1936. It measured 26 ft in diameter and 1 ft high, and contained a central cist, formed of slabs set on edge, with a slab floor, measuring approximately 3 ft 3 ins square by 2 ft deep. The sides have been levelled up with small slabs. The cover-stone had been removed by previous excavators.
RCAHMS 1946.
Of the three mounds described by the Commission, two are cairns and the third is a natural build-up of peat forming a circular bowl-shaped mound.
The northern mound, at HY 3832 3002, measuring 14.0m. in diameter and 0.8m. in height, is greatly mutilated so that only the outline is discernible. A fairly modern dry-built structure has been built in the centre.
The other cairn, containing the cist, as described by the Commission, at HY 3832 2995, is about 6.0 m. in diameter and 0.2m. high, it is destroyed on the SW side by the erosion of the cliff edge on which it stands.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 11 June 1967.
