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Dod Hill
Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Dod Hill
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 43029
Site Number NS45SE 21
NGR NS 4944 5359
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43029
- Council East Renfrewshire
- Parish Mearns
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Eastwood
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS45SE 21 4944 5359
Cist 3.7m by 1.5m overall, and several upright stones in the tapering end of a stony area 35m long, 19m to 9m wide, possibly remains of a long cairn. At the wide end are a number of structural outlines, one forming a cell 6m by 4.5m. The site has been disturbed by plantation ditches.
T C Welsh 1984
What may be the remains of a severely-robbed cairn are situated in an old plantation at the E end of the summit of Dod Hill. Surface quarrying, presumably to provide stone for the adjacent boundary dyke, has obscured the size and shape of the cairn, but it has probably been round and measured no more than 8.4m in diameter.
Of the 'cist' that is noted by Welsh, only three stones are in situ - two low side-slabs on the N and a larger boulder forming the W end. The side-slabs appear to be kerbstones on the N edge of the cairn, and an upright stone 0.6m in height to the S is probably another.
The stones that are exposed in the surrounding quarry-pits appear to be no more than natural outcrop.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARW, SPH) 17 November 1995.
