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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 687853
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/687853
NO35NE 7 3504 5782.
(NO 3504 5182) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1927)
A small, round, artificial eminence, planted with fir, in which a "stone coffin" has been exposed by a small hole recently (ie about 1863) dug in the summit.
Name Book 1863.
This is an oval, rather than round, stony mound, 22.0m E-W by 25.0m N-S and 2.0m high. It has been cleared of wood, and where it has been dug into is revealed a quantily of small stones. These, together with a number of large stones which lie around the base of the mound, suggest that it is a cairn rather than a tumulas. On the summit is a rectangular depression measuring 1.8m E-W by 0.6m - probably the site of the cist referred to in the ONB (1863); there are no signs of any slabs protruding.
Visited by OS (JLD) 2 September 1958.
