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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 669791
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/669791
NJ74NW 6 7127 4831
(NJ 7127 4831) Site of Innes Cairn (NR)
Stone Coffin containing Human Remains found AD 1869 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1928)
Near the summit of Tod's Fauld there stood till lately a pile of stones well known by the name of Innes Cairn - or the Packman's Cairn. Local tradition affirms that a travelling pedlar of that name, committed suicide and was interred there - but in October 1869, Mr Allan tenant of Newton, removed the Cairn and found a stone coffin enclosing human remains - the former he used for building purposes, the latter he interred deeper in the same place. There is now not any trace of the cairn.
Name Book 1870.
No trace of the cairn remains in an arable field.
Visited by OS (WDJ), 4 September 1964.
