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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 672270
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/672270
NK04SE 3 0742 4213.
(NK 0742 4213) Cairn Catto (NR).
OS 6" map, (1959).
A long cairn, a great mound of bare stones, some of considerable size. In spite of much disturbance the plan is fairly clear, giving a length of 157' NW-SE and a breadth of 73' across the SE end, which is straight with rounded corners, and 22' across the square NE end to which the sides taper regularly.
The cairn stands 6' high at the SE end gradually diminishing in height to the NW.
The SW side has been much robbed from near the SE end for about one-third of its length. The NE side is well defined and appears to have been little disturbed. Various deep holes have been made in the SE end by pulling away the stones but no internal structure is to be seen. There may have been cists visible in it formerly.
Two stone axes found at the cairn in 1885 are in the Arbuthnot Museum, Peterhead.
A S henshall 1963; 1972; F R Coles 1904.
Cairn Catto (name confirmed), a long cairn, c.2.0m high at the SE end, c.1.3m high at the NE end, is generally as described by Henshall. The axes are still in the Arbuthnot Museum.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 23 May 1972.
