Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725936

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX45NE 5 4979 5639

Not to be confused with standing stone at NX 4977 5620, for which see NX45NE 4.

(NX 4979 5640) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

Cairn and Stone Setting. A circular cairn overgrown with turf some 40' in diameter and 3' high. Near the centre, the upper surface of a flat slab is exposed and towards the edge of the cairn at 10' 6" to the ENE and 10'9" to the WSW, two flat slabs face each other, each measuring c.1 1/2' across and projecting to a height of 1 1/2'.

On the NE quadrant of the cairn are placed six stones, squarish in section, measuring about 2' across each face, and the highest standing about 2'6" above ground. The significance of these stones is not apparent and they are probably the remnant of some associated construction. Four of the blocks appear to be in the arc of a circle and this would be so even although the most easterly of the stones had not been overturned.

RCAHMS 1914; F R Coles 1897

Generally as described.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 27 August 1970

Scheduled as Bagbie, cairn and stone setting.

Information from Historiric Scotland, scheduling document dated 12 February 2001.