Archaeology Notes

Event ID 687841

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO36SW 1 3194 6096.

(NO 3194 6097) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1972.

A cairn in the form of a large mass of small stones spread over an irregular circle, but roughly 17.0m in diameter, with a maximum height of 0.5m. A small modern cairn and a shooting butt have been built upon it with some of the stones.

A slight stony mound, 0.3m in height, forms the perimeter of the cairn; it is probably modern.

Whether this is a sepulchral cairn or merely a boundary cairn (3 parishes meet here) could not be ascertained.

Visited by OS (J L D) 22 September 1958.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

No change.

Visited by OS (R L) 20 November 1967.

This cairn is situated on the summit of Cat Law, at the junction of the parishes of Kingoldrum, Lintrathen and Cortachy and Clova.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 May 1998.

This cairn, which measures about 17m in diameter and up to 0.7m in height, appears to be heavily robbed. Except for around its edge, the cairn is bare of soil and vegetation, and the exposed rubble has been used to build three small, roughly circular pens or shooting butts, which now stand on its surface.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 8 December 2007.