Archaeology Notes

Date 28 August 1998

Event ID 820683

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/820683

NJ40NE 47 4902 0896

Cairn [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.

What is probably a robbed burial cairn, measuring about 13m in diameter over a low, grass-grown rim of boulders and stones, is situated 10m NE of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on the summit of Pressendye. It is surmounted by a modern rubble cairn, which measures 8.4m in diameter and 3.5m in height.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 28 August 1998.