Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664657

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/664657

NJ02NW 3 04664 25753.

(NJ 0465 2575) Tumulus (NR)

OS 6" map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1903)

An unopened earthen tumulus.

Name Book 1871.

A mutilated cairn of large bare stones, 11.0m in diameter and 0.7m high, situated on a slight eminence at about 800ft OD. The perimeter is intact, but the interior has been heavily robbed probably to provide material for nearby ruined buildings.

Re-surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 1 September 1966.

This cairn is situated in a pasture field 100m S of Birchmoor. It measures 10.6m in diameter, but the centre has been heavily robbed leaving a rim of cairn material 0.7m in height around the edge.

Visited by RCAHMS (TIP, IP) 5 September 2006.