Seomar Na Strainge
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Seomar Na Strainge
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Farm
Canmore ID 24570
Site Number NN65NE 4
NGR NN 6736 5818
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fortingall
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN65NE 4 6736 5818.
(NN 6731 5821) Seomar na Stainge (NR) (Site of) (Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] destroyed)
OS 6" map (1900)
Translated as 'The Chamber of the Ledge or Ditch'. A circular cairn of earth and stones surrounded by a ditch and bank.
M E C Stewart 1956
At NN 6736 5813 is an oval-shaped cairn measuring 16.3m E-W by 10.2m N-S and rising 1.3m above the ditch which surrounds it. There are traces
of a bank on the north side of the ditch. A considerable amount of field clearance has been dumped on it.
Surveyed at 1/2500 (apparently sited incorrectly by the OS).
Visited by OS (WDJ) 24 June 1969
An unusual cairn on a flat valley floor. It consists of a stony mound 11.0m N-S by c.15.5m E-W and 1.2m high, surrounded by a ditch 2.0m wide and 0.7m deep, with a bank 3.0m wide and 0.3m high on its outer lip measuring 22.0m E-W by c.17.0m N-S between its centres. The bank in the E and S has been reduced by the plough and the ditch in the same arcs filled with cleared stones.
Visited by OA (AA) 29 October 1974
