Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667718

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ44SE 7 4534 4140.

(NJ 4534 4140 and NJ 4537 4132) Cairns (NR)

(See also NJ44SE 8)

OS 6" map 1959.

A long horned cairn 108' long, oriented E-W across the ridge of Newton Hill. It is 50' wide across the E end, where it is 5 - 6' high but the horns project obliquely to give a maximum width of about 65' and edge a forecourt apparently 10' deep. The W, and lower, end is about 30' wide. Two cuttings have been made into the E end, but neither revealed any stone structure within the cairn. Although named Cairnborrow by Henshall (Henshall 1963), the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB, 1871) states that the cairn does not bear a distinctive name.

Name Book 1871; A S Henshall 1963.

A long horned cairn as described and planned by Henshall. No name is known locally for the cairn in particular, though the area as a whole is called Cairnborrow.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (ISS) 28 November 1972.