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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 670660
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/670660
NJ90SE 6 9576 0369
(NJ 9576 0369) Baron's Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1974).
See also NJ90SE 2, NJ90SE 4, NJ90SE 5.
Situated on the top of a knoll, this massive cairn has been considerably mutilated, and measures 18.0m in diameter, and is 1.7m high.
Visited by OS (JLD) 31 July 1952.
The remains of this cairn are as described.
Visited by OS (EGC) 9 November 1961.
Air photographic coverage listed.
NMRS, MS/712/19.
This cairn lies on the summit of Tullos Hill 340m WNW of Peterseat farmsteading (NJ90SE 75). Measuring 19m in diameter by 1.3m in height, it is composed of a mass of boulders, including some of pink granite. The cairn, which is surmounted by an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar, is crossed from NE to SW by a modern fence-line and its surface is strewn with bricks.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 30 September 1996.
Scheduled as Baron's Cairn.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 16 July 2002.
