Archaeology Notes

Event ID 693636

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO88SW 16 8067 8354.

(NO 8067 8354) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1974)

There are the remains of a large cairn on the summit of Carmont Hill. It was opened about 12 years ago (c. 1852) and a short cist 'level with the surface of the ground', containing a small urn and black unctuous earth was found. The cist was covered up and left in the same state as it was found.

Name Book 1864.

The cairn survives as a stony platform, about 16.5m in diameter and 0.8m high, surmounted in the centre by a modern marker cairn which probably covers the reburied cist.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 4 December 1969.