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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 668352
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668352
NJ65SE 13 6781 5045.
(NJ 6781 5045) Cairn Ennit (NR)
OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Cairn Ennit is a low mound of small stones, forming a circle about 80 or 90 feet in diameter, with several 'goodsized' blocks of whinstone lying around the circumference. A boulder about 8 feet high and 11ft long lies on the southern arc.
F R Coles 1903.
The much mutilated remains of a cairn with a conjectural diameter of c.25.0m. The western half of the circumference is outlined by several smallish boulders, but in the NE segment a scatter of large boulders tends to confuse the course of the circumference. The SE segment consists of low mounds of small stones,many of them undoubtedly field clearance. The large boulder noted by Coles (1903) appears to lie outside the circumference of the cairn. An old field bank runs along the southern circumference.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 14 September 1964.
No change.
