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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 667749
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/667749
NJ44SW 6 4429 4223
See also NJ44SW 4 (information about beaker).
(NJ 4432 4223) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map 1959.
A large unnamed mound of earth and stone.
Name Book 1871.
A beaker, which was preserved in the Brander Library, Huntly, in 1906, came from one of the cairns at Cairnmore ie this cairn, NJ44SW 4 and NJ44SW 5 or NJ44SE 11 - which had been 'partially explored' some years before. It was broken in removing it from the cairn.
F R Coles 1906.
NJ 4429 4223 A turf covered cairn of earth and stones measuring 17.0m
in diameter and 2.0m high. It appears to be undisturbed.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (ISS) 29 November 1972.
