Building record MAB6484 - STONY HILL

Remains of robbed kerb cairn.

Remains of robbed kerb cairn. Only a rim of turf-covered cairn material remaining around which a kerb of contiguous stones as an edge are visible intermittently. There is a gap in southwest which indicates robbing. It was recorded in the 1870s that a local old woman remembered seeing a number of large upright stones in late 19th Century, which were subsequently removed by local people for reuse including mill-stones, door-posts and rollers. It was estimated that as much as 600 cart loads were removed from inside the cairn, the stone being reused for the purpose of building dykes and filling drains, and that the stones had been burnt, mixed with bones, and were loose so that it only required the lowest ones removed to make those above tumble down. The cairn is situated within a prehistoric field system (NJ25SW0004). A walkover survey carried out by West Coast Archaeological Services in October 2020, covering an area of a proposed woodland planting and regeneration scheme (NJ25SW0049), recorded the very degraded remains of the prehistoric kerbed cairn (Site 6), with the structure obscured by deep heather stands.

ORDNANCE SURVEY, 1871, Ordnance Name Book, No18(1871) 67 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1360.

WEST COAST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2020, MOSS OF ROTHES WOODLAND PLANTING SCHEME, ROTHES ESTATE, MORAY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL DESK BASED ASSESSMENT AND WALKOVER SURVEY, DBA and Walkover (Bibliographic reference). SAB3448.

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Mar 24 2021 11:22AM