Archaeology Notes

Event ID 726714

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX27NE 2 2752 7703.

(NX 2753 7703) Cairn (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1957)

The mutilated remains of a round cairn of earth-and-stone, robbed for the building of overlying sheepfolds. It can now be traced only on the north and NE sides of the folds, where its maximum height is 1.5m, but its diameter could be determined at circa 33m in 1896 (J Smith 1895).

No sepulchral remains have been found.

Name Book 1856; Visited by OS (JLD) 10 November 1955

NX 2752 7703 The grass-covered remains of a cairn as described in the previous field report. It seems likely that its original diameter was about 35.0m.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (BS) 18 February 1976