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Nether Pitlochrie
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Nether Pitlochrie
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 27763
Site Number NO10NE 1
NGR NO 1817 0958
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27763
- Council Fife
- Parish Strathmiglo
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO10NE 1 1817 0958.
(NO 1817 0958) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1921)
A cairn, a little E of Nether Pitlochie farm, was opened "a good many years ago." It contained "several stone coffins full of ashes, pieces of bone, beads, etc., the beads were large, of a yellowish amber, and some of a blackish colour. Small's sketch map is crude, but the siting approximates to the OS entry.
A Small 1823
Farther W (of NO10NE 3) a vast cairn stood, near Gateside, until about 40 years ago (c.1786 - paper read 1829; Millar's siting agrees, generally, with Small). When removed, many bones were found and great quantities of iron - many pieces so small as to be called 'knives and forks' by the workmen; others were larger than the 'enormes gladios' of the Romans; none were preserved. A great quantity of elliptical jet beads were found in the cairn; others were of bluish glass, shaded with spiral or circular lines, and some, of white enamel, had red and blue spots.
Millar 1851
Cairn, Nether Pitlochie: All traces now gone; ground under cultivation.
RCAHMS 1933
At the OS siting is a low knoll, but no trace of a cairn.
Visited by OS (DWR) 4 April 1972
Field Visit (10 June 1925)
Cairn, Nether Pitlochie.
The ground in vicinity of this site, which lies at an elevation of 300 feet above sea level, is highly cultivated, and all traces of the cairn have been removed. At the time of its destruction a number of black and amber beads were found. – Small 1823., pp. 82, 180.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 10 June 1925.
