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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 717556
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/717556
NT55SE 7 5577 5223
See also NT55SE 4 and NT55SE 5.
(NT 5577 5223) Cairn (NAT)
OS 6" map (1957)
At this site, in undulating moorland, 1150ft OD, there has been a round cairn about 35ft in diameter and now only 1ft to 2ft high, doubtless robbed to build the nearby sheep stell. Ten feet from the SW edge, there are two boulders set on end, 3ft 9ins apart. The SE stone measures 2ft 2ins by 1ft and is 2ft 5ins high; its top has obviously been smashed. The NW stone is 3ft 3ins by 1ft and is 3ft 3ins high. The longer faces of the stones are not quite in line. Several fairly large boulders lie about the site. To the NE of the upright stones, the cairn material has been removed to form a hollow.
The size and arrangement of the two visible earthfast stones suggest that the cairn covered a small, megalithic, non-rectangular structure but its precise nature is not evident.
A S Henshall 1972, visited 1964; RCAHMS 1915
When seen in 1955, this cairn was in similar condition.
Visited by OS (JD) 14 June 1955
This heather-covered cairn is as described. The vague limits of the cairn material suggest an overall diameter of approximately 14.0m. The origin of the cup marks on the large stone is unknown. There are six pronounced marks of varying diameters and depths, and a number of other minor depressions. They may however be natural weather marks.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JRL) 30 May 1979
