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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654279
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654279
ND24SE 16 2608 4403.
An Orkney-Cromarty type round cairn, 60' in diameter and 12' high, virtually intact, with a particularly fine chamber which together with ND24SE 21, gives name to its type. This is one of the group of three cairns known as the ' Grey Cairns of Camster' (See also ND24SE 1 and ND24SE 17 ) Excavation by Anderson and Shearer in 1865 produced flint implements and an iron knife-blade, now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, Accession no's : EO 97-123) and pottery, now lost. Further excavation was carried out by R Ritchie in 1967 prior to the public's being allowed access to the chamber. A tiny fragment of beaker was found, and half the blocking in front of the entrance was removed.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
A S Henshall 1963; Name Book 1872; Curr Archaeol 1972; J Anderson 1886; RCAHMS 1911; S Cruden 1967; Visited by OS 11 April 1972.
Copies of eight drawings from P R Ritchie's 1966 excavations at Camster Round have been catalogued.
Historic Scotland Archive Project (SW) 2002
