Cameron Home Farm, 'round Hill'
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Site Name Cameron Home Farm, 'round Hill'
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 42491
Site Number NS38SE 5
NGR NS 36906 82529
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42491
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Bonhill (West Dunbartonshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS38SE 5 3691 8252.
(NS 3691 8252) Round Hill (NR)
OS 6" map (1923)
Round Hill. An artificial mound a short distance south of Cameron Home Farm, considered to be an ancient tumulus. Nothing, however, has been discovered at or about the place to lead to its supposed origin.
Name Book 1896
Round Hill is an earth and stone mound, measuring 30 x 20 metres and 2.5 metres high; its top is 6.0 metres in diameter. It appears to be artificial and resembles a motte rather than a tumulus. There are, however, a number of morainic mounds on the hillside round Loch Lomond, and is possibly one of these.
Visited by OS (JLD) 1 October 1956
Round Hill: Probably represents the remains of a prehistoric burial cairn. At the present time it is oval on plan, and measured 90 feet from NW to SE, 66ft, transversely, and 11 feet in maximum height. Surface indications suggest that the NE side has been cut back in modern times, and that originally the mound was nearly circular with a diameter of about 95 feet.
RCAHMS MSS notes, visited 4 May 1955.
The mound measures 29.0m NW - SE by 21.0m transversely, its flat top measures 11.5m x 7.0m and it has a maximum height of 2.5m. It is probably a cairn, no trace of a cist or kerb was seen.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 25 January 1963
Field Visit (4 May 1955)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-1962), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, are available to view online - see the searchable PDF in 'Digital Items'. These vary from short notes, to lengthy and full descriptions. Contemporary plane-table surveys and inked drawings, where available, can be viewed online in most cases - see 'Digital Images'. The original typecripts, notebooks and drawings can also be viewed in the RCAHMS search room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 19 July 2013.
Reference (1957)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1951-5)’ (RCAHMS 1957, xiv-xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG), 24 October 2012.
Field Visit (August 1977)
Round Hill NS 369 825 NS38SE 5
At a height of 105m OD, and overlooking the S end of Loch Lomond, there is an oval, stony mound which may be a prehistoric burial-cairn. It measures 27.4 m by 20.1 m and stands to a maximum height of 3.3m.
RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1977
