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Dechmont Hill
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Site Name Dechmont Hill
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 44871
Site Number NS65NE 21
NGR NS 6569 5821
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44871
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Cambuslang (East Kilbride)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District East Kilbride
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS65NE 21 6569 5821.
There were formerly many cairns on Dechmont Hill.
F H Groome 1882-5.
NS 6569 5821. Within the fort described on NS65NE 18, and on the highest point of Dechmont Hill (183m OD), is a circular, much mutilated mound, 10.0m in diameter and 0.9m in height, surmounted by an OS triangulation pillar and a flagstaff. It is surrounded by a shallow ditch outside of which there is a low, spread bank 26.0m in diameter (owing to extensive mutilation, further measurements are impracticable). This mound is similar to a saucer barrow on Pisgah Hill, Whitfield (NT41NE 1). Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (A C) 18 June 1959.
Cairn, Dechmont Hill. The summit of Dechmont Hill, which offers extensive views in all directions, is crowned by a cairn, dimensions as given by OS. It is likely that a Food Vessel, donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1882 (Accession no: EE 29) was discovered here.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1882; RCAHMS 1978, visited 1974.
Field Visit (August 1974)
Cairn, Dechmont Hill.
The summit of Dechmont Hill, which offers extensive views in all directions, is crowned by a cairn, measuring 10 m in diameter and 0.9m in height. It is likely that a Food Vessel, donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1882 was discovered on this site (PSAS xvi, 147).
RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1974.
