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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 667134
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/667134
NJ46NE 6 4907 6537 and 4908 6537
See also NJ46NE 7 and NJ46NE 18.
(NJ 4906 6537: NJ 4907 6537) Cairns (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
About 450 yards west of Foulford Bridge are two tumuli. In the more easterly of the two, a short cist was found, the flats that composd it still being there. It contained an urn and bones. The westerly hillock has never been explored.
W Cramond 1895.
Two heather covered mounds 9.0m in diameter by 2.0m in height. No evidence of any excavation or trace of the slabs mentioned by Cramond (28 March 1895) could be found, and the whereabouts of the urn and bones is not known.
Visited by OS (RD) 5 August 1964.
No change.
Visited by OS (RL) 20 July 1964.
