Site type CAIRN (POSSIBLE), COMMEMORATIVE CAIRN
Canmore ID 214715
Site Number NJ40NE 47
NGR NJ 4902 0896
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish TARLAND
Former Region GRAMPIAN
Former District KINCARDINE AND DEESIDE
Former County ABERDEENSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NJ40NE 47 4902 0896

Cairn [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.

What is probably a robbed burial cairn, measuring about 13m in diameter over a low, grass-grown rim of boulders and stones, is situated 10m SW of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on the summit of Pressendye. It is surmounted by a modern rubble cairn, which measures 8.4m in diameter and 3.5m in height.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 28 August 1998.