Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664117

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH78NW 8 7113 8776.

(NH 7113 8776) Cairn (NR) (rems of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1973)

A large tumulus, mostly of earth. It has never been explored, but has been partly destroyed, "but to no great extent at present".

Name Book 1874.

A cairn which has been excavated and almost completely carted away for road metal.

RCAHMS 1911.

Situated on a raised beach at Newton Point are the remains of a turf and whin-covered cairn 12.0m in diameter. The interior has been robbed to ground level and all that remains is a penannular rim up to 3.5m wide and 0.5m high. The content where exposed is of beach stones.

Visited by OS (N K B) 24 October 1969 and 10 December 1980.