EAB12790 - Excavation - COTHIEMUIR HILL

Three small trenches were opened by Richard Bradley in 2001 to assess the structural sequence of the monument and to compare it with the Tomnavarie excavations. Excavations revealed that initially, a low cairn or platform of rubble was constructed. The platform was open at the centre and revetted on the exterior by a buttress of rubble, and by a bank of massive boulders in the interior. The recumbent stone circle was added later (two of the sockets for the monoliths cut the cairn structure). Few artefacts were recovered and these consisted of worked flints and some worked and unworked quartz.