Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731566

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY28SE 12 2984 8228.

Three cairns have been found on the hill W of Westwater farm (NY38SW 20). The principal one contained a cist, lying NE-SW and measuring 3ft 2ins by 1ft 6ins and 1ft 3ins in depth. Though it was very carefully examined by Mr J M Elliot of Westwater, only a few fragments of calcined bone were found.

The remains of the other two cairns lie about 100 yards to the N, and a little lower on the hill.

J and R Hyslop 1912

NY 2984 8228. A mutilated turf-covered cairn lies at 248m OD just off the summit area of a sloping ridge. It is 8.0m in diameter and 0.6m high and is cut by a 1.8m wide, 0.7m deep trench. The cist is not evident but there are a number of large boulders protruding from the trench and these may be part of the cist remains.

NY 2985 8235. An oval spread of large stones, situated lower down the hillslope, is 4.0m by 3.0m and 0.2m high. The centre has been disturbed but nothing of significance has been exposed. This feature appears to be a stone cleareance spread rather than a cairn.

NY 2985 8239. A disturbed mound of large stones, which has been fashioned into a crude windbreak, is approximately 5.6m by 4.9m and up to 0.9m high. It cannot be identified as a cairn from the present ground evidence.

Cairn surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (MJF) 1 September 1979

The cairns noted by Hyslop and Hyslop cannot be located, and may be obscured by any of the numerous recent field clearance heaps in the area.

M J Yates 1984.