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Balbie
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Balbie
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 52779
Site Number NT28NW 12
NGR NT 2283 8866
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52779
- Council Fife
- Parish Burntisland
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT28NW 12 2283 8866.
(NT 2283 8866) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1921)
Near Balbie, a barrow or tumulus was opened c.1786 when some square stones were found, arranged in the form of a coffin, but contained no particular relics.
NSA (written by Rev D Couper - 1836) 1845.
There is now no trace of this cairn.
Visited by OS (W D J) 11 March 1959.
Field Visit (6 May 1925)
Cairns.
(1) All traces of the cairn or tumulus which is said to have existed near the farmhouse of Balbie have now been removed by cultivation: The New Statistical Account (1) records the discovery of a cist " containing no particular relics," and the site is marked on the O.S. map. The Account adds, "There appears to have been a number of tumuli in the same neighbourhood," but all traces of these have now disappeared.
(2) Dr. Wilson, in Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, i, p. 132, records the existence near Burntisland of a cairn in which was found a cist containing a skeleton and "a bronze spearhead." The O.S. map shows "Stone Cist Found" south of Baspard Hill, which may be the position.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 6 May 1925
(1) Vol. ix, p. 414.
OS Map ref: xl NE (unnoted)
