Archaeology Notes

Event ID 724905

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX16NW 14 1361 6595.

On open moorland is a circular depression 16.5m in diameter and 1.0m deep within which is a stony rim 13.5m in diameter and near the centre an amorphous pile of stones 5.0m across. In view of the fact that in two instances nearby (NX16NW 4 and NX16NW 5 ) cairns have been totally robbed and the site quarried for material for stone dykes, it seems probable that what survives here is the remains of a cairn.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS 29 April 1976.

The cairn measures about 14m in diameter but it has been reduced to little more than a ring of cairn material in the bottom of a hollow in the peat about 0.8m deep. At the centre of the cairn there is a mound about 1m high, but this is largely rock outcrop.

Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 11 May 1985.