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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 667546
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/667546
NJ45SE 1 centred 4837 5263
See also NJ45SE 27.
(NJ 4835 5260) Cairns (NR)
OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)
A number of small cairns roughly piled into a conical heap said to be the graves of those who fell in a battle between the early Scots and the Danes.
Name Book 1868.
Area centred NJ 4837 5263. About a dozen small stoney mounds were seen in the area. They are stone clearance heaps not cairns.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 5 February 1964.
These mounds have almost disappeared due to forestry operations. There is no trace of an associated field system.
Visited by OS (RL) 27 June 1967.
