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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 666809
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/666809
NJ40SE 53 4530 0029
NJ 454 003. A degraded cairn c.0.35m in height and bordered by a low stone kerb 16m in diameter. The inner chamber is 8m in diamter with stone rubble within. There is no passage to the chamber. The cairn lies c. 350m NW of the New Kinnord settlement group, and would appear to be the circle marked within Ogston's The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Howe of Cromar (1931); it is not mentioned in the text.
A Ogston 1931; KJ Edwards 1976.
(Location cited as NJ 4540 0030 and name as New Kinord/Monandavan; Site of Regional Significance). The remains of a ring cairn survive on a gentle slope at an altitude of 165m OD. Parts of a low stone kerb and a central chamber survive but there is no passage to the chamber; the interior is filled with stone rubble.
(GRC/AAS photographs EI 11-12, 30 April 1985).
NMRS, MS/712/105.
