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Desk Based Assessment
Date 1965
Event ID 921057
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/921057
A Clyde-type, chambered long cairn, wedge-shaped, 95ft (29m) long E-W with, at the E end, an impressive facade, mainly orthostatic, through which the chamber, c. 34 1/2 ft (10.5m) long, was entered and in front of which was a paved forecourt. A kerb consisting of massive blocks, averaging 2 1/2ft (0.7m) high can be traced in stretches. The cairn was severely damaged and robbed for the building of an iron age aisled round-house (NF77SW 24) which was inserted into its W end. The site was excavated by Scott in the 1930s and 1940s; finds from the cairn, now in NMAS, include beaker sherds.
E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928;W L Scott 1935; 1947; A S Henshall 1972.
