Archaeology Notes

Event ID 730918

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY38SE 11 centred 363 817

There are several small unopened cairns on the hill behind Old Irvine steading (NY38SE 86). One is much larger than the others.

J and R Hyslop 1912

(Approx NY 363 817) Situated on Rig Hill, about 1/2mile W by N of Old Irvine, is a much dilapidated cairn, about 16ft across. On the same hill, about 80yds W of the NW corner of the enclosure at NY 364 816, is another, 18ft in diameter and 2ft high.

RCAHMS 1920.

The small cairns in the area centred around NY 363 817 on Burian Hill are stone clearance mounds which are part of either the limited area of rig and furrow cultivation at 198m OD or perhaps an earlier, though not evident cultivation system which it may overlie. The mound at NY 3638 8171, for example, is a crescentic stony pile 6.0m by 5.0m and 0.6m high.

Visited by OS (MJF), 27 September 1979.