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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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17334
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Glass
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
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.
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.
