Archaeology Notes

Event ID 678374

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN83SE 2 8899 3018.

(NN 8899 3018) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map (1901)

Cairn.

M E C Stewart 1961

Situated around the top of outcropping rock are the remains of a large irregular cairn measuring about 17.0m x 15.0m and standing to a maximum height of 1.0m. There is no evidence of a kerb, cist or chamber. The outcrop in the centre which is now bared is surmounted by a modern cairn about 2.0m high.

Revised at 1:10560 scale.

Visited by OS (RD) 18 November 1970

As described in previous field report.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (SFS) 8 October 1975

Known locally as 'Jock's Cairn'.

(Information from RCAHMS DJNP 23 January 2006)