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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710307
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710307
NT15SW 3 1100 5091.
(NT 1099 5091) Upper Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
"Upper Cairn" is situated about 970ft OD at the foot of the E slopes of North Muir Hill. Its base and flanks have been robbed for stones, the largest quarry scoops being on the E, N and W. The cairn, now largely overgrown, measures at least 70ft in diameter and 14ft in height. There is no sign of a surrounding ditch.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1959
NT 1100 5091. Upper Cairn, name verified, is as described.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (JRL) 23 February 1979
