Kintrockat House
Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Kintrockat House
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Kindrockat
Canmore ID 34766
Site Number NO55NE 23
NGR NO 5676 5919
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34766
- Council Angus
- Parish Brechin
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO55NE 23 5676 5919.
An earth and stone mound (8.5m in diameter by 4m in height), which lies on the edge of a scarp 60m NW of Kindrockat House, is reputed to have been erected to mark the site of a market held close by during the plague of 1647-8. It is, however, probably a well-preserved prehistoric burial-cairn.
Name Book 1861; RCAHMS 1984.
Photographic Survey (2 March 2011)
Photographed for the Listed Buildings Area Survey.
