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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 668208
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668208
NJ53SE 7 centred 573 302
(NJ 5730 3025, 5734 3026, 5739 3033) Sites of Cairns (NR) Human Remains found.
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
'Some good few years since there were three cairns removed from this spot. Cairn marked No. 2 was so large that upwards of one hundred cartloads of stones were taken from it, in it were found human bones. There was nothing found in the others.'
Name Book 1867.
The area in which the cairn sites are situated is covered in heather and gorse, the ground uneven and on a slight slope. Only at the site at NJ 5734 3027 was any evidence of a cairn, a slight mound c.7.0m diameter and 0.3m high, the top being slightly hollowed; it is too indefinite
for survey.
Visited by OS (EGC) 27 September 1961.
(Classification amended to cairns, field-system and small cairns and location to centred NJ 573 302). The remains of 43 cairns and several lengths of low stony bank are visible in this area of mixed improved and unimproved pasture, part of which has recently been planted with trees. The cairns measure between 1m and 8m in diameter. The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1874, sheet xxxiv) depicts only three cairns here, but that 'Human Remains' were found in them. There are now no visible remains of the westernmost at NJ 5730 3025. The central cairn, at NJ 5734 3027, measures about 7m in diameter and 0.4m in height. The easternmost cairn is probably that at NJ 5739 3031; it measures about 7m in diameter and 0.4m in height.
The presence of burials within three of the largest cairns within the group suggests that several of the others, which include another three that are over 6m in diameter, may be burial cairns.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 23 April 1996.
