Archaeology Notes

Event ID 692540

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO67NE 18 6549 7944.

(NO 6549 7944) St Ringan's Cairn (NR) (Cross found 1965) (NAT)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)

St Ringan's Cairn: A collection of small stones beside the Military Road (Lin 516). There is no tradition connected with it.

Name Book 1863.

The remains of a mound of small stones about 12.0m in diameter, reduced to ground level by excavating for road material in 1965 when a fragment of a cross slab (NO67NE 15, q.v.) was found in its centre. Its situation and the size of the stones are against it being a Bronze Age cairn, and the finding of the cross suggests it was a mount for this cross. Surveyed at 1:10560.

Visited by OS (A A) 11 November 1971.