Archaeology Notes

Event ID 704044

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO69SW 21 6309 9414

The following feature was located and surveyed during a detailed survey of features at Upper Tillygarmond:

NO 6309 9414 ?Long cairn

A detailed report will be lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsors: Historic Scotland, University of Edinburgh.

D Alexander 1998.

(Location cited as NO 6300 9408). This long cairn is situated on a slight shelf in a SE-facing slope in an area of rough grazing at an altititude of 235m OD. It is trapezoidal on plan, comprises a turf-covered mound of earth and stone aligned NW-SE, and measures 33m in length by 11m in width at the NW end and 22m at the SE. The NE and SW ends are 1.4 and 0.4m high respectively. There is a spread of field clearanace material on top of the mound, a field bank overruns the mound, and there at whin bushes growing at the NE end.

Information from D Alexander (CFA), surveyed March 1998.

NMRS, MS/712/90.