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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 668428
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668428
NJ63SE 2 6572 3281
(NJ 6572 3281) Mummer's Reive (NR)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
A very large cairn of stones resembling a burial cairn. The origin of the name is unknown but the Rev Masson thought it to have been used as the seat of a sham Bishop, called a Mummer, elected according to custom annually, who conducted a service of the church here. Reive is the name given to a fortification.
Name Book 1867.
A robbed cairn, 12.5m in diameter and 0.6m high with hollowed, stony centre, situated on a conspicuous wooded shoulder. Around it at a distance varying from 5.0m to 11.0m is a low oval bank, not traceable in the NE, but this may be the remains of a later plantation dyke.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 20 February 1969.
This robbed cairn is situated on a conspicuous wooded shoulder in an area of grassland and heather scrub at an altitude of 180m OD. The low bank may be of post-medieval date.
NMRS, MS/712/63, visited May 1989.
This cairn is situated on a large, wooded knoll on a steep, S-facing slope 340m NNW of Hillbrae farmsteading (NJ63SE 53). The centre has been dug into, but the cairn measures about 13m in diameter and the rim of grass-grown boulders and stones that forms its perimeter still stands some 0.6m in height.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 21 February 1996.
Scheduled as 'Mummer's Reive, cairn... a prehistoric (Bronze-Age) burial cairn... situated on a conspicuous, wooded shoulder on the SW shoulder of Meikle Tom...'.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 November 2006.
