Cairn Macneilie, Inch Parks

NX06SE 8 0985 6193

(NX 0985 6193) Cairn Macneilie (NR)

OS 6" map (1909)

Cairn Macneilie is a circular cairn. A small portion in the cultivated land has been cleared away but the remainder, within the wood, has an elevation of 6 feet, a diameter of 42 feet and does not appear to have been excavated.

RCAHMS 1912.

The remains of this cairn consist of a turf-covered mound of earth and stones now covered with undergrowth and trees. The remains measures 13.5m north to south by 10.3m East to west by 2.1m high. The hollowed top is c.5.3m in diameter and suggests possible excavation. The cairn has been circular in shape and c.13.5m in diameter. A substantial bank of earth and stones forming the west boundary of Cairn Macneilie wood, cuts through the west side of the cairn completely obliterating the western third of it.

Revised at 25".

Visited by OS (WDJ), 12 February 1963.

This cairn stands on the summit of a knoll 350m ESE of Inch Parks farmhouse. The bulk of the cairn lies within a coniferous plantation, but its W side which extended into an arable field has been removed. Otherwise the cairn appears to be intact forming a mound measuring 15.5m from N to S by 12.5m transversely and up to 2.5m in height; around the S there is a spread of stones about 2.5m wide and up to 0.3m thick.

RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) May 1986.