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Gryfe
Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Gryfe
Classification Cairn (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Muiredge; Garshangan
Canmore ID 41341
Site Number NS27SE 19
NGR NS 28022 71427
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/41341
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Greenock
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Inverclyde
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS27SE 19 28022 71427
(NS 2802 7142) Cairn (NR)
OS 25" map (1967).
This probable burial cairn is a regular, domed, partly artificial mound, 40ft in diameter.
F Newall 1964.
Examined by Mr Livens and Miss A S Robertson, this cairn would appear to be authentic. A photograph is retained in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
Information from R G Livens (Assistant Curator, Hunterian Museum), 28 February 1956.
NS 2802 7142. This cairn is a turf-covered mound, oval- shaped, measuring 16.5m E-W by 12.5m transversely with a maximum height of 2.0 m. It has an oval, almost flat top, about 4.0m by 3.0m and several stones protrude from its surface.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ), 13 November 1964.
Scheduled as 'Muiredge, cairn 1050m W of... the remains of a cairn... visible as a prominent stony mound... within a forestry plantation at about 210m above sea level.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 24 February 2011.
Cairn [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, March 2011.
