NS62NE 4 6622 2644. (NS 6622 2644) Cairn (NR) (site of) OS 6" map (1957) A collared cinerary urn was found on 29th January 1924 at the crest of a natural sandhill, cut away from the road, 120 yds E of Marchhouse. It lay (at A on plan) near the centre of a banked cremation enclosure, 47ft in diameter, which contained at least one other urned and one un-urned cremation (A Morrison 1968). (Fairbairn, who excavated the site after the find of the cinerary urn, and on whose report the OS publication was based, originally interpreted the stony bank, 8 1/2 ft wide, as the rim of a cairn, though there was no evidence of stone within the enclosure.) The collared urn was inverted over a deposit of burn bones, and contained a biconical pygmy vessel, filled with fine ash, with a bone pin, a bronze awl and an unworked fragment of green chert. At B on plan, underneath the bank, was found a small pit, containing charcoal and small fragments of burnt bone. The material found is in the NMAS. Half of a stone axe was found before 1895 in the opposite bank of the roadway, within a few yards of where the S margin of the enclosure would have extended to. It is also in the NMAS (Acc No: AF 679). A Fairbairn 1924; 1927; J Smith 1895; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1926 The road at this point cuts through a natural ridge to a depth of 3.0m. A slight swelling can be seen in the ground to the N of the road. No further finds were made. Visited by OS (JFC) 24 July 1954 This cairn has been completely destroyed by further road widening and the slight rise noted in 1954 is no longer visible. A few stones in the road embankment at the published site are almost certainly from the cairn. Visited by OS (BS) 21 July 1978