Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720000

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT67SW 10 6260 7484

(NT 6260 7484) Urn, Flint Knife and Whetstone found AD 1877 (NAT)

OS 6" map (1957).

The site of the 'Fairy Knowe', a cairn about 38ft in diameter and defined by a circle of large boulders from 5 to 15 cwt each. It had been covered by a mound of field-gathered stones 105ft in diameter and up to 14ft high at the centre. The cairn was removed in 1877, at which time a square cist containing an inverted cinerary urn and a short cist containing a flint knife, a whetstone and a piece of skull were found. The finds were presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS EQ 68-70) by Lady Mary C Nisbet Hamilton in 1880.

G Marjoribanks 1880; NMAS 1892; RCAHMS 1924.

The published find-spot falls at the edge of a ploughed-out grass-covered mound, almost certainly all that remains of the 'Fairy Knowe' cairn. The name is not known locally.

Visited by OS (RD), 6 April 1966.