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Latitude: 57.6484 / 57°38'54"N
Longitude: -2.0408 / 2°2'26"W
OS Eastings: 397665
OS Northings: 862059
OS Grid: NJ976620
Mapcode National: GBR P89H.ZQF
Mapcode Global: WH9NF.M0FY
Entry Name: Cairn of Memsie
Scheduled Date: 14 March 1994
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM90216
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Rathen
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Fraserburgh and District
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
The monument is a cairn of the Bronze Age measuring 24m in diameter and 4.4m high.
Antiquarian excavations have recovered artefacts and burials of the period. It is possible that some of the stone of the other two cairns which stood nearby until the 18th or 19th century has been added to
this cairn.
The area to be scheduled measures a maximum of 50m WNW to ESE by 50m transversely, to include the cairn and an area around it in which traces of activity associated with its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
The area to be scheduled is delineated on the west and south sides by field boundaries, which are themselves excluded from the scheduling.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well preserved cairn which will cover and contain burials of the early Bronze Age. It is of particular importance because it is a rare survival in an intensively farmed area where much of the archaeology has been destroyed of ploughed flat.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NJ 96 SE 1.
Historic Environment Scotland Properties
Cairn of Memsie
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/memsie-cairn
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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