Cairn Badnaspeorach

NO15NE 9 1668 5825.

(Name: NO 1668 5825) Cairn Badnaspeorach (NAT)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 1st ed. (1867)

The relevant Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] was destroyed by enemy action during the 1939-45 war. No further information found during recording.

Placed on a SW-facing slope at NO 1668 5825 is a circular enclosure marked by a poorly-preserved rubble bank 1.5m wide measuring 9.5m in diameter between its centres. A slight gap in the W may be an entrance. Eccentrically placed in the interior is an oval stony mound 4.0m NW-SE by 2.8m and 0.4m high. It has not been levelled into the slope which rules out the possibility of its being a hut circle, and the internal mound is more suggestive of a sepulchral monument, probably an enclosed cremation cemetery.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (AA) 26 April 1974

The remains of a small circular enclosure are situated at the foot of the W flank of a rocky knoll on the W flank of the ridge known as Burnt Cairns. It measures 7.3m in diameter within a bank up to 1.8m in thickness by 0.2m in height. The bank is composed of fairly large boulders, one of which is set upright on the W and stands about 0.5m high. There is an entrance on the W. Slightly S of the centre of the interior, there is a mound measuring about 2.8m in diameter by 0.3m in height.

It is likely that the name Cairn Badnaspeorach refers to the rocky knoll rather than the enclosure.

Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 27 August 1987.

RCAHMS 1990