Description

The monument comprises three low mounds, presumed to be Bronze Age burial monuments, situated in a line on a conspicuous ridge. To the north is a small, low, turf-covered mound of earth and stone measuring about 6m in diameter and surviving to a height of about 0.3m. The central mound measures 12.5m from N to S by 9m transversely and stands to about 0.6m in height. Some stone is visible, particularly in the rabbit holes. The southernmost mound is of similar but is not so high.

The monument was first scheduled in 1940, but an inadequate area was included to protect all of the archaeological remains: the present scheduling remedies this. Until 1994 only two of the three mounds had been recognised.

The area to be scheduled is approximately rectangular on plan and measures up to 80m from N to S by up to 25m transversely, to include the mounds and an area around in which evidence relating to their construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. The above ground elements of the modern field boundaries are excluded from the scheduling.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland