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Whiteside Hill
Barrow(S) (Prehistoric), Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Whiteside Hill
Classification Barrow(S) (Prehistoric), Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 46504
Site Number NS83SE 1
NGR NS 89183 33950
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46504
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Carmichael
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (21 June 1955)
NS83SE 1 8918 3395.
(NS 8918 3395) Camp (NR)
OS 6" map, Lanarkshire, 2nd ed., (1912).
This robbed cairn, the only feature noted, was in a similar condition when seen in 1955.
Visited by OS(JD) 21 June 1955.
Field Visit (September 1975)
NS 891 339. The remains of a what has been a substantial cairn occupy the level summit of Whiteside Hill (346m OD). It now appears as a grass-covered stony mound measuring 18m in diameter and 0.6m in height. About 14m to the S are two circular grassy mounds, each measuring 3.4m in diameter and 0.3m in height. They are very similar to the mound at Broughton Knowe, Peebleshire (NT03NE 15 qv), excavated in 1962, and they may be burial-mounds of the same type.
RCAHMS 1978, visited September 1975.
Field Visit (23 March 1978)
NS83SE 1 8918 3395.
The cairn is as described in the RCAHMS report. The two mounds noted were not identified; this area of the hill-side is naturally hummocky. Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JM) 23 March 1978.
Geophysical Survey (February 1990)
Detailed survey of several sites in the area prior to the M74 motorway.
Field Visit (1993)
The two circular grassy mounds, recorded by RCAHMS, 14m to the S of the cairn have been destroyed by ploughing.
T Ward, Biggar Museum Trust, 1993.
NMRS MS 626/10
