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Strowan

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Strowan

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 25510

Site Number NN82SW 17

NGR NN 8200 2082

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Monzievaird And Strowan
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NN82SW 17 8200 2082.

(NN 8200 2082) Round mound - probably tumulus - planted with oaks.

OS 6" map annotated by O G S Crawford, 10 June 1936.

"Right (referring to above). We had not time to stop but I am quite sure it is a burial mound."

OS 6" map annotated by J G Callander, 2 July 1936.

A grass-covered, stony mound, c.24.0m diameter and 3.5m high, almost certainly a cairn.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (EGC) 25 November 1966

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