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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 665780
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/665780
NJ23NE 2 287 391.
(NJ 287 391 ) Cairns (NR).
OS 6"map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1891)
A number of irregular heaps of stone, supposed to mark a battlefield, (Name Book 1869) a remarkable group of small cairns; (J Anderson 1891) a considerable number of small cairns distributed with great regularity in parallel rows, forming a, probably late, prehistoric cemetery (J Abercromby 1903).
Six of them were excavated by Abercromby in 1902. Five averaged 14'-16' in diameter and 1 1/2'-2 1/2' in height, the sixth, "more a stone setting", was 39' long, 4'9" wide and only a few inches high, with 3 large stones (1 standing and 2 recumbent) at its south end. The only find was a little charcoal in two of them: no traces of burials.
Name Book 1890; J Anderson 1891; J Abercromby 1903.
No trace of cairns in this area, the fairly steep rock strewn slopes of Little Conval. There are, however, 4 low mounds, three of which are in line. Each has a depression on the upper E side and are probably the remains of grouse butts or the result of tree uprooting.
Visited by OS (R L) 20 January 1967.
