Archaeology Notes

Event ID 817427

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/817427

NJ62NE 36 681 259.

Possible round cairn, c. 23m in diameter.

N Q Bogdan and I B M Ralston 1977.

Kirkton of Oyne. This cairn is situated on a gentle summit in arable ground at an altitude of 120m OD. Ploughing has created an irregular plan, it has suffered from robbing, and angular stones have been dumped on the perimeter, but it is still an impressive and substantial low cairn of about 23m diameter. It may originally have been a ring-cairn of comparable form to that at Selbie Hill, Inverurie (NJ72SE 39).

NMRS, MS/712/59, visited 15 August 1989.

This probable cairn, now reduced to a stony mound 22m in diameter and 0.7m in height, is situated in a field of pasture 150m NNW of the manse at Kirkton of Oyne. There is no evidence to support a previous suggestion that the mound may be the remains of a ring-cairn.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 31 July 2001.