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Cairn Ley, Glaschul Hill
Cairn (Prehistoric), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cairn Ley, Glaschul Hill
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 17133
Site Number NJ41SE 3
NGR NJ 46129 14642
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17133
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Towie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ41SE 3 4612 1463.
(NJ 4612 1463) Cairn Ley (NR)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902)
Much of this cairn had been removed for building enclosure walls prior to 1866. Seems to have been upwards of a chain in the radius. (See remarks on NJ41SE 2 for evidence of groups(s) of cairns hereabouts).
Name Book 1866.
Cain Ley is a roughly oval, heap of stones, probably originally circular and approximately 25.0 metres diameter, now measures c.26.0 metres E-W by c.20.0 metres transversely and c.3.0 metres high. It is spread and has apparently been robbed from the NE.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 29 August 1968.
Air photographs: AAS/94/03/G5/4-10.
NMRS, MS/712/21.
This cairn is situated on the leading edge of a poorly-drained, SE-facing terrace about 780m NNE of Fichlie farmsteading (NJ41SE 34). It comprises a large mass of grass-grown stones and boulders, and measures at least 33m from E to W by 24m transversely and 3m in height. The foot of the cairn has been dug into on both the N and the S. At the W end of the excavation or quarry on the N there is a roughly circular enclosure measuring about 8m in diameter within a boulder wall; the interior of this enclosure is largely choked with field-cleared stones and boulders.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 27 November 2002.
