Trestle Cairn
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Trestle Cairn
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Plea Shank
Canmore ID 57949
Site Number NT71NE 34
NGR NT 7518 1612
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/57949
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Oxnam
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT71NE 34 7518 1612.
(NT 7518 1612) Trestle Cairn (Druidical Circle) (NR)
OS 6"map, Roxburghshire, (1923).
Trestle Cairn stands on a ridge. Its remains consist of 17 stones distributed within the circumference of a demolished cairn which originally measured 55' in diameter. Only the two westernmost stones (A and B on RCAHMS 1956 plan, fig.495) are now earthfast, both standing 2'5" in height and both at a distance of 8' within the margin of the cairn, which is marked here for a length of 20' by an arc of undisturbed material which still attains a height of 1'. Apart from this fragment, everything has been disturbed, and the remaining part of the cairn rises to a maximum height of 2'6" above ground level. The other 15 stones have been moved and in many cases broken, so that any arrangement in which they now lie is fortuitous.
Source: RCAHMS 1956, visited 1947.
As described.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS(IA) 17 July 1973.
This cairn is as described.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS(JB) 5 November 1979.
Field Visit (1995)
The cairn (NMRS, MS 738/24, no.6) stands on top of an unnamed hill some 200m E of Plea Shank. It measures c.15m in diameter and stands some 0.7m high, with several boulders set on edge within the circumference along the S side of the demolished cairn. The cairn has an uneven surface and is badly disturbed.
M Dalland and R McCullagh, AOC (Scotland) Ltd, 1995; NMRS MS 738/24.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
