Blair Drummond
Barrow (Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Bronze Age)
Site Name Blair Drummond
Classification Barrow (Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Blairdrummond, Old Farm; Blair Drummond 1
Canmore ID 46065
Site Number NS79NW 2
NGR NS 72552 99066
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46065
- Council Stirling
- Parish Kincardine (Stirling)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NS79NW 2 7253 9906.
(NS 7255 9905) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map (1958)
A tree-covered earthen mound about 15ft high, 75ft in diameter from north to south and 65ft from east to west, was partially excavated by Sir Kay and Lady Muir in 1927 and 1928. At the centre of the mound was a large short cist containing some small unburnt fragments of human bone and a few teeth. It was covered with a small cairn. A short cist was also found on the SSE side. About a foot beneath the top of the mound was a cordoned urn, inverted over burnt bones, which was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities.
J G Callander 1929
NS 7253 9906. A large tumulus c. 21.0m E-W by 25.0m N-S, with a maximum height of 3.3m, constructed of light sandy soil with a surface layer of hard stone. The central excavation trench is partly filled with fallen earth and branches: there is no sign of the cist.
Revised at 25".
Visited by OS (WDJ) 30 October 1968.
Field Visit (July 1978)
Blair Drummond 1 NS 725 990 NS79NW 2
This cairn measures 25m in maximum diameter and 3.3m in height, and was trenched in the 1920s. The mound appears to be of composite construction comprising a central cist covered by a small cairn, and an outer casing of earth. The cist was built on the old ground surface and contained the remains of an inhumation. In the outer casing of the mound, on the S side, there was a disturbed cist, while immediately below the surface of the summit, an inverted Cordoned Urn (NMAS EA 201) containing a cremation was found.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1978
Callander 1929.
