Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671588

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90SE 5 9519 0317

See also NJ90SE 2, NJ90SE 4, NJ90SE 6.

(NJ 9519 0317) Cat Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1974).

The remains of this massive, mutilated cairn measure 22.0 metres by 19.0 metres and it is 2.5 metres high. A raised 'platform', 3.0 metres wide, on the north and south segments, may be an original berm.

Visited by OS (JLD) 31 July 1952.

The cairn remains as described.

Visited by OS (EGC) 9 November 1961.

Air photographic coverage listed.

NMRS, MS/712/19.

Scheduled as Cat Cairn.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 16 July 2002.

This cairn lies on the summit of a low rise on the edge of moorland 940m SW of Peterseat farmsteading (NJ90SE 75). Measuring 16.5m in diameter by 2.5m in height, the cairn comprises a mass of loose boulders and stones. The top of the cairn appears to have been rebuilt and is overlain by a modern field-wall.

Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 30 September 1996.