Viaduct Plantation
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Viaduct Plantation
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 47441
Site Number NS92SW 32
NGR NS 9482 2126
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47441
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Crawford
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS92SW 32 9482 2126.
NS 948 212. The remains of what has probably been a prehistoric burial cairn lie 700m WSW of Castle Crawford farmhouse immediately N of the minor public road from Crawford to Abington Station. About one third has been removed by the construction of the road, and what survives now appears as a grass-grown stony mound measuring about 11m across and up to 1.1m in height.
RCAHMS 1978, visited 1969
NS 9482 2126 Though partially destroyed and also robbed, there is little doubt that this is a cairn as evidenced by the perfect curvature at the base, and the position on a crest overlooking the flood plain of the Clyde.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (NKB) 26 March 1978
Name published but no detail shown on OS 1:10000 map (1982).
Geophysical Survey (February 1990)
Detailed survey of several sites in the area prior to the M74 motorway.
