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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 828994
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/828994
NS90NE 51 centred 984 091
NS 984 091 cairns (7) and burnt mound
On the southern slope of Sweetshaw Brae are at least seven cairns and a burnt mound. The mound is 35m S of farm buildings, on a terrace on the NE side of the Daer Reservoir. It is a classic kidney-shaped mound, 12m x 5m, with a gradually-narrowing W end. On the N side there is an active spring emerging from the ground, which may have been the original source for the site.
The cairns lie to the E of the farmon improved grassland. They range in size from 3m to 5m in diameter and up to 0.5m high. They form part of a larger group of cairns located to the E.
Recorded in draft of forthcoming report History of the Daer Valley, South Lanarkshire.
Biggar Museum Trust, T Ward 2002, NMRS MS 1774, 35.
