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Cairn-mon-earn
Burial Cairn (Later Prehistoric)
Site Name Cairn-mon-earn
Classification Burial Cairn (Later Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 36700
Site Number NO79SE 6
NGR NO 78261 91929
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36700
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Durris
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO79SE 6 7826 9192.
On the summit of Cairn-mon-earn (378m OD) there is a large cairn measuring 17m in diameter by 3m in height. On the top of the cairn there is an OS Triangulation station and a fire observation hut.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1792; Name Book 1864; RCAHMS 1984, visited March 1984
NO 783 919 An archaeological programme of works was carried out in January 2006 during the reinstatement of a ground anchor foundation trench for a telecommunications mast. This involved the removal of the spoil deriving from this excavation from within a scheduled area around Cairn Mon Earn Bronze Age cairn (SAM Index No. 4892). The cairn had been disturbed in the past by an Ordnance Survey Triangulation Point, situated towards the SE corner of the cairn, the foundations of a now demolished Forestry Commission fire lookout post, situated towards the northern edge of the cairn and two shelters constructed within the fabric of the cairn along its eastern edge. After recording the sections of the foundation trench and removing the materials deposited on and around the cairn no evidence was observed to suggest the cairn had been adversely impacted upon by the recent excavation.
Archive deposited with the NMRS.
Sponsor: Scottish and Southern Energy.
Alan Hunter Blair, 2006.
Field Visit (March 1984)
NO79SE 6 7826 9192.
On the summit of Cairn-mon-earn (378m OD) there is a large cairn measuring 17m in diameter by 3m in height. On the top of the cairn there is an OS Triangulation station and a fire observation hut.
RCAHMS 1984, visited March 1984.
(Statistical Account (OSA) 1792; Name Book 1864)
Watching Brief (January 2006)
NO 783 919 An archaeological programme of works was carried out in January 2006 during the reinstatement of a ground anchor foundation trench for a telecommunications mast. This involved the removal of the spoil deriving from this excavation from within a scheduled area around Cairn Mon Earn Bronze Age cairn (SAM Index No. 4892). The cairn had been disturbed in the past by an Ordnance Survey Triangulation Point, situated towards the SE corner of the cairn, the foundations of a now demolished Forestry Commission fire lookout post, situated towards the northern edge of the cairn and two shelters constructed within the fabric of the cairn along its eastern edge. After recording the sections of the foundation trench and removing the materials deposited on and around the cairn no evidence was observed to suggest the cairn had been adversely impacted upon by the recent excavation.
Archive deposited with the NMRS.
Sponsor: Scottish and Southern Energy.
A Hunter Blair 2006
