Description

The monument comprises a burial cairn and cupmarked stone of prehistoric date. It is already scheduled but the original scheduling included too small an area.

The monument lies in arable farmland at around 120m OD. It comprises a cairn of small stones overlain with earth, some 5.5m across the flat summit, about 9.2m in diameter at base, and approximately 1m high. It is surrounded by a ditch about 3-4m wide and some 0.7m deep, with an outer bank some 1m broad. Excavations in 1884 revealed fragments of human bone within the cairn and further burials may be expected to survive within it.

A cupmarked stone about 2.4m long by 1m wide lies in the ditch. It has 9 cups on the W side and 1 on the N end. The stone is almost certainly not in its original position but is likely to be associated with the funerary use of the cairn.

The area to be scheduled encompasses the remains described and an area around them in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It is circular with a diameter of 40m as marked in red on the accompanying map.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland