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Templewood
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Templewood
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 36053
Site Number NO66SW 3
NGR NO 61562 63343
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36053
- Council Angus
- Parish Brechin
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO66SW 3 6157 6334.
(NO 6157 6334) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
An artificial mound
Name Book 1860.
An almost circular, flat-topped mound situated on a ridge and commanding an extensive view all round.
It measures 6.5m by 7.0m on top and about 2m in height. There is no surrounding ditch. Probably a barrow.
Visited by OS (J L D) 15 July 1958.
A prominently placed mainly earthen mound c.19.0m diameter overall, is heavily overgrown with trees and vegetation. A few stones in rabbit burrows are insufficient to suggest that it is a cairn.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (I S S) 25 August 1971.
Note (1983)
Templewood NO 615 633 NO66SW 3
This cairn is situated on a low knoll in a belt of trees, 670m NE of Templewood farmhouse; it measures about 13m in diameter and 1.2m in height.
RCAHMS 1983
(Roy 1793, 67; Name Book, Forfar, No. 11, p. 24).
