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Glenshee

Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Glenshee

Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 17334

Site Number NJ44SW 6

NGR NJ 4429 4223

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Glass
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ44SW 6 4429 4223

See also NJ44SW 4 (information about beaker).

(NJ 4432 4223) Cairn (NR)

OS 6" map 1959.

A large unnamed mound of earth and stone.

Name Book 1871.

A beaker, which was preserved in the Brander Library, Huntly, in 1906, came from one of the cairns at Cairnmore ie this cairn, NJ44SW 4 and NJ44SW 5 or NJ44SE 11 - which had been 'partially explored' some years before. It was broken in removing it from the cairn.

F R Coles 1906.

NJ 4429 4223 A turf covered cairn of earth and stones measuring 17.0m

in diameter and 2.0m high. It appears to be undisturbed.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (ISS) 29 November 1972.

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Field Visit (22 March 1990)

This cairn, situated on a gentle E facing slope 150m WNW of the long cairn NJ44SW 5, is grass-grown and measures 15m in diameter by 1.8m in height.

Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 22 March 1990.

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