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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 677523
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/677523
NN74NW 4 7406 4693
See also NN74NW 39.
Below Kirkton village (Fortingall) is Carn na Marbh, the cairn of the dead. Plague victims were buried here by an old woman.
A Stewart 1928
(NN 7386 4698) 'Here is a small tumulus with a stone on top. The stone bears a tablet with an inscription re-burial of plague victims in the 14th century'.
Information from M E C Stewart, 2 February 1956.
NN 7406 4693. Carn na Marbh (name verified) is a turf-covered mound of stones, c.12.0m N-S by c.8.5m and 1.1m high, situated on the edge of a river terrace in cultivated ground. It is surmounted by a vertical slab set in concrete, to which is attached the plaque stating the tradition of a plague burial. The mound appears to have been truncated on the E and W by ploughing, and enlarged by the addition of stone clearance, and it cannot be classified with certainty as a barrow or cairn.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (NKB) 2 October 1975
No change to previous field report.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (MJF) 1 December 1978.
