More information : Previously recorded as NT 91 NE 22 (B).
NT 9943 1728. A large stone cairn, 15 m in diameter and up to 1.8 m
high, stands on level ground on the top of the Knock Hill ridge at
310m OD. It has been very much disturbed, being robbed of stone to
build a rectangular structure, possibly a sheep shelter, with walls
0.5-1.0 m wide and 0.2 m high, partly turf-covered, which abuts the S
side of the cairn itself. The cairn also appears to have been
excavated, having a circular hollow in the centre,4.3 m across, and
an excavated trench 1.8 m (6 ft) wide which has been backfilled with
loose stones. The cairn is of bare stone except for its lowest
extremities and part of the central hollow which are turf-covered.
Probably a Bronze Age burial cairn. (1) |