Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690554

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO64SE 1 6548 4355.

(NO 6548 4355) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map (1970)

A large, flat-topped cairn, situated on the top of Dickmount Law and surrounded at base by a modern retaining wall.

It measures about 30m overall and is 3m high, the flat top being 12m in diameter and showing signs of excavation. There are several excavation trenches in the side of the mound, one of which, in the west, shows it to be constructed of small stones. What appears to be a slight ditch 3m wide inside the retaining wall may be simply the result of earth piling against the wall.

Local tradition said that this was where the baron held his courts (Statistical Account [OSA] 1794).

Visited by OS (JLD) 9 June 1958

As described.

Resurveted at 1/2500

Visited by OS (JTT) 19 October 1965