Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725090

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX38NE 2 3554 8707.

(NX 3554 8707) Cairnfore (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

A large cairn 22m in diameter and 2m high, robbed in the centre for the building of sheep-pens and a wall. The perimeter is turf-covered. Contiguous of the cairn on the east are two much smaller mounds of stones also robbed in the centres. Both are 0.6m high one being rectangular c6m by 4m but the shape of the other being unclear due to spread. The remains of a wall running N-S protrude through the turf to the north. (J Smith 1895)

Visited by OS (JD) 18 November 1955

Cairnfore is as described by the previous authority. It is now surrounded by trees and there is no trace of the other two referred to.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (JP) 7 June 1976