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Fasset Hill
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Fasset Hill
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 59366
Site Number NT82SW 20
NGR NT 84736 20316
NGR Description From NT 84737 20320 to NT 84736 20312
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Morebattle
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT82NW 20 from 84737 20320 to 84736 20312
(NT 84736 20316) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962).
There is a much reduced mound of stones with some earth, highly suggestive of a small ruined cairn, 45 yds W of homestead NT82SW 18.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1945.
This much-robbed cairn, 14.0m in diameter and 0.5m high, is almost entirely grass-covered.
Surveyed at 1:2500.(WDJ)
Visited by OS (RD) 6 June 1968.
No change.
Visited by OS (TRG) 12 August 1976.
Centred at NT 8473 2031 on a steep SW-facing, rough pastured hill slope, the remains of this much-robbed turf-covered cairn now measure about 13.0m in diameter.
Most of the downhill SW side has disappeared and the main area of the stone content is around the NE. A few stones are evident around the periphery but no true kerb as such.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (ISS) 18 September 1979.
A turf-covered cairn lies towards the upper limit of an area of rig (NT82SW 310) on moderately steep SW-facing slope of Fasset Hill. It measures 13m in diameter and stands up to 0.5m in height although its centre has been robbed. and the downhill side damaged. Given its situation within the area of the rig, the cairn may represent localised field clearance.
Information from RJ Mercer (University of Edinburgh) 22 March 1987
RCAHMS MS 2598, No. 27/374
