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White Caterthun

Pillow Mound (Post Medieval)

Site Name White Caterthun

Classification Pillow Mound (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 68681

Site Number NO56NW 18.05

NGR NO 5395 6601

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Plan of both forts and a field-system with cairns and hut-circles adjacent to the White Caterthun (photographic copy).
Plan of both forts and a field-system with cairns and hut-circles adjacent to the White Caterthun (photographic copy).Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of ring ditches, cairnfield and field system at White Caterthun, looking to the NE.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Menmuir
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Activities

Field Visit (14 September 1989)

NO56NW 18.05 5395 6601.

What may be a pillow mound is located on a gentle slope above an un-named burn on the NW side of the field-system (NO56NW 18.4). It measures 7m from NE to SW by 3.5m transversely and 0.4m in maximum height. The NE end and the sides of the mound are flanked by a shallow ditch from 1.25m to 1.5m broad.

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 14 September 1989.

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