Hundred Headed Knowe, Green Craig
Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Hundred Headed Knowe, Green Craig
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 31805
Site Number NO32SW 14
NGR NO 3230 2145
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Creich (North East Fife)
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO32SW 14 3230 2145.
A mound known as the 'Hundred Headed Knowe', about 400 yds N of Greenhill (NO 3445 2285) and on the other side of the Old Dundee Road. Small also refers to Greenhill as "a little N of the Manse of Creich." (This would seem to accord with Green Craig but would hardly put the mound north of the Road - Small's siting should, however, be treated with reserve - his account is highly romantic and contains topo inaccuracies).
A Small 1823
Possibly a cairn. RCAHMS refers to it as "north of Green Craig and quotes Small without comment. (In this account RCAHMS refers to Green Craig as site "No 145", it should read "No 144").
RCAHMS 1933
Not located.
Visited by OS (RD) 10 June 1970
Publication Account (1933)
Cairns, North of Green Craig.
About 200 yards farther north than the site of No. 145 [NO32SW 26] in Creich Parish, and, says Small (1), "on the other side of the old road from Dundee," a mound known as "the Hundred Headed Know" seems to have marked the site of a prehistoric structure - possibly a cairn. "About a gunshot west from this," Small continues, "there has lately been a large flat cairn or cemetery partly opened, and several Roman urns found in it, two of which I saw; and though considerably less than those in general found, ... and though of coarse manufacture and sculpture, being only done with the nail of the thumb, yet they are of the same materials with the other Roman urns".
(1) Interesting Roman Antiquities in Fife, pp.235-6.
OS Map ref: iii S.W. (unnoted).
RCAHMS 1933
