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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 684714
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/684714
NO21SE 20 2992 1114.
(NO 2992 1114) Tumulus (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1974)
Bell Barrow, Cairnfield: This feature lies close to the railway about 1/4 mile NE (should read NW) of Cairnfield farm at a height of 150ft OD. Its dimensions are: outer bank, 20ft wide from base to base and up to 1 1/4ft high; ditch, average depth 2ft; central mound, 32ft in diameter and 2 1/4ft high. Overall diameter 86ft E-W by 82ft N-S.
RCAHMS 1933.
Sir H Dryden explored a tumulus about 1/4 mile NW of two tumuli (NS31SW 10). It was composed of sandy soil, height about 5ft. No remains were found.
J Brodie 1873.
This bell barrow is as described by the RCAHMS and is in a good state of preservation. It is situated in a corner of a Forestry Commission plantation, but has been left undisturbed.
Visited by OS (D S) 25 October 1956.
This would appear to be a saucer barrow rather than a bell barrow. It is generally as described previously except that the outer bank varies in width from 6.4m to 8.8m, the central mound measures 11.8m N-S by 10.8m E-W, and the overall diameter is 28.8m.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 21 March 1967.
This probable sepulchral mound cannot be identified as either a bell or saucer barrow in its present form. If it was 5ft high in 1870, as stated by Brodie, then its profile has been considerably altered by excavation as it is now only 0.6m high. The substantial bank, apparently a primary feature, is 0.5m high externally and 0.6m high internally. The wide internal ditch is silted and there is no evidence of a causeway.
Visited by OS (B S) 11 December 1978.
Scheduled as Cairnfield, cairn.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 28 February 2000.
