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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.
