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North Muir, 'upper Cairn'
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name North Muir, 'upper Cairn'
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 50255
Site Number NT15SW 3
NGR NT 1100 5091
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50255
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Linton (Tweeddale)
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT15SW 3 1100 5091.
(NT 1099 5091) Upper Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
"Upper Cairn" is situated about 970ft OD at the foot of the E slopes of North Muir Hill. Its base and flanks have been robbed for stones, the largest quarry scoops being on the E, N and W. The cairn, now largely overgrown, measures at least 70ft in diameter and 14ft in height. There is no sign of a surrounding ditch.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1959
NT 1100 5091. Upper Cairn, name verified, is as described.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (JRL) 23 February 1979
Field Visit (24 June 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
