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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 653711
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/653711
ND16SE 10 1810 6090.
The indefinite foundations of a number of circular buildings lie in the SW corner of the park immediately to the W of Stemster policies. It is impossible to date them without excavation.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910
Not located.
Visited by OS (R D) 10 November 1965
At ND 1810 6090, prominently situated in the SW angle of a field on a gentle SW-facing slope is a long cairn, reduced and mutilated, and its southerly extent truncated by the sunken course of an old track. The turf-covered remains now measure 41.0m NE-SW along the main axis, and maintain an average height of 0.5m throughout their entirety. The width is problematic but is estimated at 13.0m in the SW increasing to 16.0m at the higher NE end. No stonework suggestive of a chamber was noted. A later field bank flanks the NW base of the cairn and turns at right angles across the NE end.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 29 October 1981
Not a long cairn. Foundations of buildings.
J L Davidson and A S Henshall 1991
Long cairn. Dimensions: 40 x 15m. Sub-rectangular mound 0.5m high containing three hollows possibly denoting chambers. At the SW end there are possibly traces of an original round cairn 10m in diameter, converted into the long cairn. Orientation NE-SW.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995.
