Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667805

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ52NW 11 c. 532 263 and 5241 2673.

(NJ 5301 2641) Cairns (NR) (Site of)

(NJ 5331 2625) Cairns (NR) (Site of)

(NJ 5241 2673) Cairns (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Upwards of twenty tumuli were destroyed during land reclamation about 1846. Each consisted of 'a continued series of upright stones' about 18 feet in diameter. In the centre a grave 'of the usual dimensions' had been dug, some cut in solid rock to a depth of about 5 feet. Burnt bones were found in some of them, and in others ornamented urns full of calcined bones.

Mr Booth conjectured that the tumuli at NJ 5331 2625 were connected with the causeway from the stone circle (NJ52NW 10) to the northwest. He stated that the stones from these tumuli resembled those found in stone circles.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; Name Book 1866; Information from Mr Booth, Hillside.

No trace.

Visited by OS (RL) 18 September 1967.

GRC/AAS site nos. NJ52NW 11, NJ52NW 39, NJ52NW 40.

NMRS, MS/712/52.

These cairns, which were destroyed in about 1846, stood in what is now cultivated ground 250m SW of Percylieu farmsteading (NJ52NW 48). The description of the cairns and their removal in the Name Book suggests that some covered cists containing urns.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 5 March 1996.

Name Book 1866.