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Seat Knowe
Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Field Boundary (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Seat Knowe
Classification Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Field Boundary (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Blairmore; Murray's Hill Wood
Canmore ID 88136
Site Number NN92SW 51
NGR NN 9361 2469
NGR Description NN 9361 2469 and NN 9358 2469
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/88136
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fowlis Wester
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN92SW 51 9361 2469 and 9358 2469
An undisturbed cairn is situated (at NN 9362 2470) on the leading edge of a terrace 450m NW of Blairmore steading (NN92SW 51), in a position which commands a broad vista to the SE, S and SW. It measures about 10m in diameter and 1.4m in height, and it is surmounted by a small, modern marker cairn. The cairn is intervisible with the New Fowlis and Sair Law cairns (NN92SW 2 and NN92SW 30 respectively).
Immediately SW of the cairn there are the remains of a rectangular enclosure measuring 5.8m from WNW to ESE by 2.5m transversely within grass-grown wall-footings. No evidence of an entrance can be seen.
Some 30m to the W of the cairn (at NN 9358 2469) and in a comparable situation, there are what are probably the remains of a second cairn. Although heavily robbed, it measures about 8m in diameter by 0.5m in height; its E side is crossed by a field-bank running from N to S.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, JRS), 10 November 1995.
NN 936 247 A grassed-over stony cairn lies on the highest point of Seat Knowe, a ridge commanding extensive views to the S. The cairn has a diameter of c 10m and is up to 2m high. A modern cairn occupies its summit. The low turf foundations of a rectilinear structure, some 6 x 8m, occupy its S flank, and there are extensive cultivation and field system remains in the vicinity, particularly to the N.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Perth Museum & Art Gallery.
I Armit and M Hall 1998
