Mossknowe

NY26NE 2 28064 69266

Not to be confused with NY26NE 3.

Location formerly cited as NY 2806 6926.

(NY 2806 6926) Tumulus (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

A round cairn (50 ft in diameter and 4 ft high), excavated in 1908 by Miss D M A Bate. The cairn material was found to cover a clay layer (1 ft thick) containing a quantity of quartz. It was found to cover a central cist (aligned E-W) containing the bones and teeth of at least one adult and a child but no surviving grave-goods. The cist was covered with two slabs, one on top of the other, the lower 7 ft. by 4 ft. and the upper 5 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 6 ins. The joints of the cist were clay-luted and the floor covered by clean river gravel.

D M A Bate 1909; RCAHMS 1920; R W Feachem 1963.

The remains of this cairn consist of a slight mutilated, grass covered stony mound c 11.0m in diameter by 0.5m high. No trace of the cist remains.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 17 October 1967.

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (JP) 21 February 1973.

This site is very low-lying, being situated on the flood-plain. Very little survives and, although it has not been cultivated, plough-encroachment has left it distorted and nearly rectangular. Within the rectangle is a low circular bank of turfed-over stones (measuring 11m in diameter) which may be all that remains of the original monument.

M J Yates 1984.

Scheduled as 'Calvertsholm Cottages, cairn 320m NNW of... a burial cairn... visible as a low turf- and grass-covered stone mound [situated] within a large cultivated field on the N side of the Solway Firth 20m above sea level.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 7 November 2007.