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Easton-medwin Water
Cairn (Prehistoric), Long Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Easton-medwin Water
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric), Long Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 48820
Site Number NT04NE 19
NGR NT 0828 4965
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48820
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Dunsyre
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT04NE 19 0828 4965.
(NT 0828 4965) Long Cairn (NR)
OS 25" map (1973)
When visited in 1971, this monument was noted as a probable long cairn; its condition was similar to that described by the RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 28 July 1971
This cairn is not noted by Miss Henshall.
A S Henshall 1972
Measured Survey (4 October 1971)
This site was surveyed by RCAHMS at a scale of 1mm : 1ft on 4 October 1971. The drawing was subsequently inked up and published in 1978 as Fig. 16 at the reduced scale of 1:500.
Field Visit (September 1975)
A most unusual cairn stands 440m NNW of the farmhouse. It measures 15.3m NW-SE by 13.7m transversely and not more than 0.6m high, and has been heavily robbed, so that its surface is now very irregular.
From its E perimeter a low mound of stones extends in a very gentle curve towards the ENE for a distance of 61m. Measuring 7.0m in average breadth and 0.4m in greatest height, this structure appears to comprise two separate bands of stones, each about 2.6m wide, with a depression between them which contains noticeably fewer stones. Some 46.5m from its W end the mound expands into a rather bulbous eastern terminal measuring about 14.5m by 11.2m; this may represent the remains of another round cairn, the centre of which has been so severely robbed that little more survives than a peripheral fringe, up to 1.0m high.
RCAHMS 1978, visited September 1975
Field Visit (9 October 1992)
This site probably represents the remains of a shortened long cairn, with two bands of stone extending from its SW end. The W end of the stony banks is overlain by a round cairn which sits on the highest point of the ridge.
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) 9 October 1992.
