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Eildon Mid Hill
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Eildon Mid Hill
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 55736
Site Number NT53SW 29
NGR NT 5475 3224
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/55736
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Bowden
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT53SW 29 5475 3224
(NT 5475 3224) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1967)
This cairn is situated on the SW flank of Eildon Mid Hill about 100ft below the summit, at a height of some 1285ft OD. It has been much robbed and now appears as a low, irregular mound of stones, about 50ft in diameter, from which a few boulders protrude to indicate the possible former presence of a cist.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1948; R W Feachem 1963.
This cairn measures 15.0m by 13.0m and 0.5m in height, and is as described above.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JLD) 11 January 1961.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
