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Cairn Knap
Cairn (Early Bronze Age), Cist (Early Bronze Age)
Site Name Cairn Knap
Classification Cairn (Early Bronze Age), Cist (Early Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 34633
Site Number NO54NE 3
NGR NO 59318 49013
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34633
- Council Angus
- Parish Kirkden
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO54NE 3 5931 4901.
(NO 5931 4901) Cairn Knap (NAT) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1971)
Cairn Knap: A number of years ago, this cairn or tumulus was opened and found to contain two cists and a great number of human bones.
Name Book 1859.
This feature is a round cairn as its stone-built composition can be clearly seen in many excavated places. Much of the cairn has been quarried away on the NW, but its perimeter can be traced showing it to be 22.5m in diameter. It is 3.0m high.
Visited by OS (JLD) 12 June 1958.
Field Investigator (JLD) confirmed.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (JTT) 19 October 1965.
Field Visit (March 1978)
Cairn Knap NO 593 490 NO54NE 3
This cairn lies immediately NE of the old railway to the S of Friockheim, and measures 22.5m in diameter and 3m in height. Two cists were discovered under it in the 19th century, and the NW side of the mound has been partly quarried away.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978
(Name Book, Forfar, No. 57, p. 45; Coutts 1970, 15, no. 31)
