Cuparlaw Wood
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Cuparlaw Wood
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Pendreich
Canmore ID 47128
Site Number NS89NW 24
NGR NS 80465 99162
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47128
- Council Stirling
- Parish Logie (Stirling)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS89NW 24 8046 9916.
Cairn, Cuparlaw Wood. This cairn is situated on the summit of a low knoll within a felled wood, 170 yds ENE of Pendreich farmhouse and at a height of 600ft OD. It consists of a low, grass-covered mound which measures 40ft in diameter and stands to a maximum height of 1ft 6in.
The surface is disfigured by pits caused in 1926 when the cairn was opened and three cists were uncovered (R T Young 1927). Two of these contained no relics; in the third there were fragments of bones and a broken beaker, some sherds of which are preserved in the Smith Institute, Stirling.
RCAHMS 1963; Smith Institute 1934
As described above.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 19 September 1968
Field Visit (14 February 1954)
Cairn, Cuparlaw Wood.
This cairn is situated on the summit of a low knoll within a felled wood, 170 yds ENE of Pendreich farmhouse and at a height of 600ft OD. It consists of a low, grass-covered mound which measures 40ft in diameter and stands to a maximum height of 1ft 6in. The surface is disfigured by pits caused in 1926 when the cairn was opened and three cists were uncovered (1). Two of these contained no relics; in the third there were fragments of bones and a broken Beaker, some sherds of which are preserved in the Smith Institute, Stirling (2).
RCAHMS 1963
(1) TSNHAS, xlix (1926-7), 91
(2) Smith Institute Catalogue, 64, AP 11
Reference (1957)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1951-5)’ (RCAHMS 1957, xiv-xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG), 24 October 2012.
Field Visit (September 1978)
Cuparlaw Wood NS 804 991 NS89NW 24
When this cairn, which measures 12m in diameter and 0.5m in height, was opened in 1926, three cists were found, one of which contained a Beaker (SAGMS A3999) and some fragments of bone.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
(Young 1927; RCAHMS 1963, p. 59, no. 2; Clarke 1970, 520, no. 1739)
