Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668094

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ55SW 1 5192 5359

(NJ 5185 5362) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)

A large conical cairn with surrounding tumuli.

Name Book 1868.

This cairn has been entirely removed, only a few scattered stones marking its site. No trace of any tumuli was seen in the vicinity.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ), 6 February 1964.

There is no trace of a cairn at NJ 5185 5362.

At NJ 5192 5359, on a false crest, are the remains of a large cairn, c.16.0m in diameter, and 1.5m high. It is slightly mutilated by afforestation, and has been robbed in the centre. Close by the W side are the indefinite remains of several small mounds. This would appear to be undoubtedly the cairn and 'tumuli' referred to by the ONB (1868), the published site almost certainly being an original survey error.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 29 May 1967.

NJ 5184 5363. One large stone which still stands in the vicinity may be all that remains of this cairn. The location is in an area of rough grazing on an NW-facing slope near the top of a ridge at an altitude of 240m OD.

Visited by Aberdeenshire Archaeological Service, 19 February 1998.

NMRS, MS/712/31.