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Mile Cairn

Cairn (Prehistoric)

Site Name Mile Cairn

Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Ardoch

Canmore ID 35236

Site Number NO58SW 1

NGR NO 5107 8001

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Lochlee
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO58SW 1 5107 8001.

(NO 5107 8001) Mile Cairn (NR).

OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1902)

A small cairn of stones situated on a short ridge which falls away sharply on the SW. It is 10.0m in diameter, and 0.4m high. Many of the stones have been piled up to form a shelter or shooting butt, 1.0m high. Only two large stones were noted forming part of a retaining kerb - one on the SE, the other on the west.

Visited by OS (J L D) 29 July 1958.

A cairn, as described above.

Revised at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 13 November 1967.

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