Robgill Mains

NY27SW 8 2472 7109

A grass-covered, tree-planted cairn, 90 ft across and 12 ft high, in cultivated land some 300 yard S by E of the E lodge of Robgill (at NY 2472 7109) is apparently unexcavated.

RCAHMS 1920

Generally as described by RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 19 October 1967

(Location cited as NY 247 710 and named Rob Gill). Situated amidst rolling agricultural land of very high quality, the monument occupies the highest point of a slightly domed hill, with good views around.

The well-preserved cairn measures 29m in diameter and 3.5m in height and is largely turfed-over, but it is possible to see in the disturbed area on the E side that it is composed of rounded water-worn stones, possibly from the river nearby. Several varieties of stone can be identified but these are also available in the glacial till on which the cairn stands.

No features are visible and the cairn has also served as a repository for large boulders removed in recent years from the agricultural land around.

M J Yates 1984.

Scheduled as 'Robgill Mains, cairn 320m E of... a burial cairn likely to date to the Bronze Age, now visible as a low, grass-covered circular stone mound... at 75m above sea level, in a large cultivated field.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 19 December 2007.