Note

Date 9 January 2013

Event ID 932915

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/932915

RCAHMS visited Sillyearn Hill on 21 July 1943 and recorded six cairns, or groups of cairns. At the time of writing, only two of these had equivalent entries in Canmore (relating to their subsequent inclusion by the Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division (ie NJ55SW 1 and NJ55SW 10), and an additional four records have been created.

The six sites are as follows:

(i) Wattie's Cairn ie NJ55SW 10.

(ii) A second cairn '200 yds NNE' of Wattie's Cairn, 'at the angle between two ditches'. This is probably the 'stone' depicted on the current OS map.

Entered as NJ55SW 37.

See also NJ55SW 15.

(iii) Five small cairns between (i) and (ii).

Entered as NJ55SW 38.

(iv) Cairn ie NJ55SW 1.

(v) At least three cairns 'about 300 yds SE of (iv).

Entered as NJ55SW 39.

(vi) A group of small cairns 300 yds SW of Sillyearn farmstead.

Entered as NJ55SW 40.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 9 January 2013