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Red Castle
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Red Castle
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 35238
Site Number NO58SW 3
NGR NO 5467 8070
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35238
- Council Angus
- Parish Edzell
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO58SW 3 5467 8070.
(NO 5467 8070) Cairn (Red Castle) (NR).
OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1903)
A cairn of small stones, 18.0m in diameter and varying in height from 0.5m on the east to 1.2m on the SW. It is overgrown with heather apart from a clearance of c.10m diameter in the centre.
Eighteen large boulders, which occur among smaller stones round the perimeter, appear to have been pulled away from the kerb of the cairn. Only one of these large stones remains erect, serving as a retaining stone on the perimeter. The larger stones are of red sandstone which account for the local name of 'Red Castle'.
Visited by OS (J L D) 29 July 1958.
Cairn, as described and still known as 'Red Castle'.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 13 October 1967.
The present appearance of this cairn is of a stony mound c.11.0m in diameter placed almost centrally on a 'platform' c.18.0m in diameter - a phenomenon which is caused probably by robbing. The bedding trench for the howked peristalith is well defined.
Visited by OS (A A) 11 November 1971.
