Archaeology Notes
Event ID 653204
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NC96SE 15 9764 6370.
At NC 9764 6370 there is a small cairn 6.0m in diameter and 0.5m high. On the SW periphery a kerb about 0.2m high is clearly visible, and although there is no visual evidence, this would appear to be a burial cairn.
(Visible on RAF air photographs 106G/Scot/UK 75: 4363-4 (flown 1946).
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 27 November 1964 and (J L D) 25 June 1960
(NC 9764 6370) Cairn (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963)
A cairn as described, completely overgrown with whin but for the S sector.
Revised at 1:10560.
Visited by OS (J M) 11 August 1981.
The features of this cairn, noted during a pre-afforestation survey of Sandside Estate, is completely overgrown with gorse.
C Dagg 13 October 1998; NMRS MS 1008/3, no.34