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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 689507
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689507
NO44SE 8.00 47812 41893
NO44SE 8.01 NO 4780 4188 Pillbox
For other nearby cairns, see NO44SE 9, NO44SE 22, NO44SE 27.
(NO 4780 4188) Cairn (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire, 2nd ed., (1923)
A circular heap of stones, nearly level with the ground.
Name Book 1859.
NO 4780 4188. The remains of a large cairn, visible as a vague stony mound c. 30.0m in diameter with a maximum height of 1.0m on the S. Its perimeter is defined by a stone kerb which survives at groundlevel in the N and E. A number of wartime installations exist upon and around this cairn, which is now scarcely recognisable.
Visited by OS (J L D) 12 August 1958.
Previous field report confirmed.
Visited by OS (E G C) 5 September 1967.
This monument comprises the remains of a burial cairn of prehistoric date situated in moorland at around 215m OD. It comprises a sub-circular heap of stones some 35-40m in maximum diameter with a maximum surviving height of approximately 1m. Indications of a kerb of large boulders are visible in the N and E. Despite disturbance to the surface by small rectangular turf structures, possibly the remains of pre-modern bothies, and a wartime pillbox, it is to be expected that evidence for Bronze Age burial and ritual practices will survive in and below the mound.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 6 March 1997.
