Pitcarmick Burn
Burial Cairn(S) (Bronze Age)
Site Name Pitcarmick Burn
Classification Burial Cairn(S) (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 27273
Site Number NO05NE 25
NGR NO 06312 56378
NGR Description NO 0631 5637 and NO 0637 5636
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kirkmichael (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (22 November 1973)
NO05NE 25 0631 5632 to 0638 5631.
Situated on two prominent isolated knolls at NO 0631 5632 and NO 0638 5631 are two heather-covered cairns, 'A' and 'B' respectively.
'A' is 6.5m in diameter and about 0.7m high. The centre has been excavated revealing a cist 1.0m NE-SW by 0.6m which is full of peat. The S slab appears to have fallen inwards.
'B' is 7.0m in diameter and about 0.8m high with one or two kerb stones visible around the N arc. The centre has been excavated revealing a cist, still in good condition, measuring 1.2m ENE-WSW by 0.6m and about 0.5m deep. Just outside the NE side of the cairn is a flat slab (1.0m x 0.7m) which is probably the capstone.
Close by are a few stone clearance heaps, probably outliers of the field system to the SW.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (ISS) 22 November 1973
Field Visit (14 October 1987)
Two burial cairns are situated on prominent rounded knolls about 60m apart on the S side of the Pitcarmick Burn.
The W cairn (NO 0631 5637) measures 5.6m in diameter and 0.5m in height over an intermittent boulder bank; at the centre there are the remains of a cist (c. 1.1m NE-SW by 0.8m and 0.3m deep) which was partially filled with peat on the date of visit.
The E cairn (NO 0637 5636) measures 6.4m in diameter by 0.6m in height and also has a kerb, of which at least ten boulders survive in situ, and a central cist. The cist measures 1.1m in length by 0.45m in width at the W end and 0.55m at the E end, and it is 0.4m in depth.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 14 October 1987.
RCAHMS 1990
