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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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35236
- Council Angus
- Parish Lochlee
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
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.
