Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663113

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH76SW 2 7338 6247.

(NH 7338 6247) Grey Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Grey Cairn, prominently placed on a ridge, stands to a height of about 2.0m and measures about 20.0m NE-SW by about 18.0m transversely. There is a recent hollow in its NE arc. There is no evidence to support Woodham's suggestion that it is chambered. It stands on a stony platform about 0.3m high which is surrounded by a stony sub-circular bank about 2.0m wide retained externally by a kerb of stones on edge and measuring about 26.0m NE-SW by about 24.5m transversely overall. None of these stones seems large enough to be the kerb of the cairn itself and it appears that this platform and bank are original features, and not due to the robbing which has mutilated the cairn particularly on the NE. At the moment the cairn sits eccentrically within the bank and merges with it in the E, but this is probably due to the way the cairn has tumbled and partly to the robbing.

Re-surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 21 January 1974 and (A A) 7 January 1971.

A A Woodham 1956.

No change to previous report.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (J M) 10 January 1978.

Scheduled with NH76SW 13.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated May 1989.