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Pitcarmick Burn
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Pitcarmick Burn
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 27274
Site Number NO05NE 26
NGR NO 06557 56640
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27274
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kirkmichael (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (13 November 1973)
NO05NE 26 0657 5662.
At the S edge of a field system (NO 05 NE 27), at NO 0657 5662, is a heather-covered cairn, 9.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, with a kerb of contiguous stones on edge visible around most of the perimeter. A central excavation about 1.2m in diameter and about 0.4m deep has probably not gone deep enough to reveal a cist.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (ISS) 13 November 1973
Field Visit (28 August 1987)
This probable burial cairn is situated close to the SW corner of a terrace on the N side of the Pitcarmick Burn, at the edge of an area of small cairns (NO 05 NE 27). It measures 9.3m in diameter and 1m in height over a kerb of boulders; the largest of the kerbstones (1.2m long and 0.55m high) is situated on the SW arc. A disturbance to the turf-covered cairn is marked by a shallow depression (c. 1.3m in diameter and 0.1m in depth) at its centre.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 28 August 1987.
RCAHMS 1990
