Auld Ca-knowe, Hero's Grave Cairn
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned), Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)
Site Name Auld Ca-knowe, Hero's Grave Cairn
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned), Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)
Canmore ID 54041
Site Number NT40NE 4
NGR NT 4793 0908
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/54041
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Hawick
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT40NE 4 4793 0908.
(NT 4793 0907) Hero's Grave (NAT) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1958)
A cairn of unrecorded size stood on Auld Ca-Knowe, at a height of 710 ft OD and was demolished for stones in 1811 when a cist containing human bones and flint implements was discovered.
NSA 1845 (J Wallace)
Other flints (A Michie 1879) and a bronze spearhead (cf NT40NE 29) (Trans Hawick Archaeol Soc 1883) have been found in the immediate vicinity.
This feature is described in the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) as a "small tumulus with a ring round it, situated on a slight eminence.
Name Book 1858
Auld Ca' Knowe (name-plate on pillar), name verified, is a prominent, flat-topped knoll surmounted by a commemorative pillar. Nothing of archaeological significance survives.
Visited by OS (JRL) 17 November 1979
Sbc Note (21 March 2016)
Visibility: This was the site of an archaeological monument, which may no longer be visible.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
