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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654972
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654972
ND26NW 4 218 693.
(ND 2180 6932 & ND 2182 6932) Cairns (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
Two small cairns about 32ft in diameter and 5 to 6ft high. Neither appears to have been excavated.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
Two sand and turf covered cairns as described by the RCAHMS. The one in the E has a loose flat slab, 0.9m by 0.6m, lying prostrate on its E arc.
Visited by OS (I S S) 9 March 1972.
As described by the previous authorities, except that there is some evidence that trenching has taken place across both features. Though they have a regular plan and profile which is cairn-like, they are situated in a dune landscape and may be small circular dunes. Rabbit scrapes in the summit indicate pure sand only; the sole evidence for a stony content is the aforementioned flat slab at the base of the E mound.
Revised at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 7 July 1982.
