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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 678295
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/678295
NN72NE 2 7766 2524.
Three turf-covered cairns on the hill grazing of Balmuick are situated about 900ft above sea-level, about half a mile from and within sight of the stone circle (NN72NE 1). They lie in a line 80 yds long on the crest of a low ridge running NW to SE. The south mound is about 36ft in diameter and the other two each about 22ft. They are from 3 to 4ft high. Excavations by Boston, about 1880, exposed in each mound a short cist and fragments of urn one of which was ornamented with twisted cord decoration. In the cist of the southern mound was a handled beaker.
T Boston 1884
These cairns, centred on NN 7766 2524, and commencing with the north one, measure 11.5m, 10.0m and 12.5m in diameter respectively.
Visited by OS (RD) 22 November 1968
No change from previous field report.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 23 September 1975
