Canmore Site 26253: WHITE CAIRN, GLEN COCHILL - LITTLE DUNKELD - CAIRN (EARLY PREHISTORIC), BEAKER (EARLY PREHISTORIC)
Description
Site Name | WHITE CAIRN, GLEN COCHILL |
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Other Name(s) | CARN BAN |
Site Number | NN94SW 2 |
Broad Class | MONUMENT (BY FORM), FOOD PREPARATION AND CONSUMPTION, CONTAINER |
Site Type(s) | CAIRN (EARLY PREHISTORIC), BEAKER (EARLY PREHISTORIC) |
NGR | NN 9072 4116 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 10m |
Local Authority | PERTH AND KINROSS |
Parish | LITTLE DUNKELD |
Record created | 1988-04-11 |
Last updated | 2001-07-24 |
Archaeology Notes
NN94SW 2 9072 4114.
(NN 9072 4114) White Cairn (NAT)
OS 6" map (1902)
Carn Ban or White Cairn has recently been completely removed, but had originally been 60' in diameter with a circumference marked by a ring of contiguous boulders, and beyond, a further circle of free-standing boulders set at irregular intervals. A short cist primary burial was found, covered by a large capstone, and filled with fine river gravel, but no relics.
Fragments of a long-necked beaker, coarse and poorly made, were, however, discovered at a point where the cover-slab had slipped due to the partial collapse of one of the underlying side-slabs. The sherds were of a type of beaker not hitherto found N of the Forth and Clyde isthmus, but associated further S with handled beakers (in Perth Museum).
M E C Stewart 1961
"White Cairn" is still visible as a low heather- covered rubble mound with indications of a kerb on the S side giving a diameter of 15.0m. In the centre is a cist constructed of a few slabs measuring 0.6m N-S x 1.1m and 0.6m deep. The capstone lies alongside.
Surveyed at 1:10560 scale.
Visited by OS (RD) 18 November 1970
The beaker fragments are in Perth Museum.
D L Clarke 1970
Three black and white prints of the excavations have been donated to Perth Museum (Acc No 1988.88.3-5).
A G Reid 1988.
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