Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649277

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC50NE 14 5726 0555

(NC 5726 0555) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)

A circular, grass-covered stony mound or cairn (RCAHMS 1911) 9m in diameter and 0.9m high. A slight excavation has been made in the top but no cist nor chamber is exposed. Although this is probably a cairn, there is the possibility that it is simply a field clearance heap.

Visited by OS (W D J) 19 June 1963.

RCAHMS 1911.

This mound adjacent to an area of run-rig is similar in content to several field clearance heaps in the vicinity, but two factors suggest that it is a small round cairn. Firstly it is situated on a prominent false crest, and secondly it is bounded by about twelve stones up to 0.3m high, some contiguous, which contain the stony mound some 5.0m in diameter and 0.4m high. These stones do not describe a perfect arc as a cairn kerb, but some may be displaced.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 21 July 1976.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (J B) 15 March 1979.

Scheduled with NC50NE 13, NC50NE 16, NC50NE 17, NC50NE 19, NC50NE 22, NC50NE 38 -9, 46, 54-6 and 81-2 as The Ord, chambered cairns, cairns, settlements and field systems.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 14 February 2002.