Archaeology Notes

Event ID 678804

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN94SW 2 9072 4114.

(NN 9072 4114) White Cairn (NAT)

OS 6" map (1902)

Carn Ban or White Cairn has recently been completely removed, but had originally been 60' in diameter with a circumference marked by a ring of contiguous boulders, and beyond, a further circle of free-standing boulders set at irregular intervals. A short cist primary burial was found, covered by a large capstone, and filled with fine river gravel, but no relics.

Fragments of a long-necked beaker, coarse and poorly made, were, however, discovered at a point where the cover-slab had slipped due to the partial collapse of one of the underlying side-slabs. The sherds were of a type of beaker not hitherto found N of the Forth and Clyde isthmus, but associated further S with handled beakers (in Perth Museum).

M E C Stewart 1961

"White Cairn" is still visible as a low heather- covered rubble mound with indications of a kerb on the S side giving a diameter of 15.0m. In the centre is a cist constructed of a few slabs measuring 0.6m N-S x 1.1m and 0.6m deep. The capstone lies alongside.

Surveyed at 1:10560 scale.

Visited by OS (RD) 18 November 1970

The beaker fragments are in Perth Museum.

D L Clarke 1970

Three black and white prints of the excavations have been donated to Perth Museum (Acc No 1988.88.3-5).

A G Reid 1988.