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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 714423
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714423
NT50SE 2 5526 0388 to 5528 0387.
(NT 5526 0386) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1963)
This cairn, situated immediately E of the summit of of Windburgh Hill, consists of a low, spread mound of tumbled boulders measuring about 22' in diameter. A small modern cairn has been built on the NE quadrant.
The cairn lies within an irregular four-sided enclosure formed by a low, grass-covered, stony bank up to about 5' in width, in which there is no entrance. The longer axis of the enclosure measures about 100' NW-SE. Loose boulders cover the ground in the SSE corner and the N quarter of the enclosure, the rest of the interior, including the part on which the cairn stands, being under grass.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1949
There are the remains of two cairns on the summit of Windburgh Hill. Each comprises a low spread of boulders measuring up to 8.0m in diameter lying immediately to the N of a modern cairn and on a slight slope to the E of it. The slight remains of the enclosure are as described but are undatable.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (IA) 12 July 1973
