Carnaveron
Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Bronze Age)
Site Name Carnaveron
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 17592
Site Number NJ51SE 6
NGR NJ 5646 1281
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17592
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Alford
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ51SE 6 5646 1281.
(NJ 5646 1281) Carnaveron (NR) (Site of): Stone Coffins & Urn, containing bones and ashes found. (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
A round cairn 120ft in diameter and about 25ft high in the shape of a truncated cone. Partly removed before 1840, and found to cover several cists, one containing a rude urn of baked earth in which were ashes and pieces of bone, the others containing ashes and charcoal. Only a few loose stones remain (Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] 1866).
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; W D Simpson 1943; Name Book 1866.
No trace on a prominent hill.
Visited by OS (RL) 17 September 1967.
Possibly to be equated with NJ51NE 10.
NMRS, MS/712/51.
Field Visit (9 September 1994)
The remains of this cairn can be traced in a former plantation at the W end of the summit ridge of Carnaveron Hill. It has largely been reduced to a scatter of small quarry pits and spreads of stone, all turfed over. Only on the W and SW, where there are four or five possible kerb stones, is there a clearly-defined edge, although a groove on the NE may be a robber trench defining the line of the kerb. These fragmentary remains suggest a cairn measuring 34m in diameter, and now only 0.6m high at most.
(CRAIG94 76)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 9 September 1994.
