Touch
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Site Name Touch
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 46240
Site Number NS79SE 55
NGR NS 75015 93138
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46240
- Council Stirling
- Parish St Ninians
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS79SE 55 7501 9313.
(NS 750 931) Mound, Touch. This mound is situated beside the farm road running S from the former West Lodge of Touch, at a distance of 300 yds from the lodge and on the highest point of a low, rocky ridge. It is circular on plan, measures 65ft in diameter at the base and stands to a height of 2ft 6in. Now covered with fine pasture, it appears to have been formerly under cultivation, and the flat top measures 50ft in diameter. The mound may represent a denuded cairn, and three earthfast boulders which protrude through the turf near the W edge may be the remains of a peristalith. The largest stone has a bench-mark carved on it (1259).
A Food Vessel in the Smith Institute, Stirling is recorded as having come from the Touch estate.
RCAHMS 1963
NS 7501 9313. A sub-circular mound, as described by the RCAHMS, the west side of which has been obliterated by the farm track. Possibly a denuded cairn as suggested by the RCAHMS, but only excavation could confirm.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 September 1968
Field Visit (21 November 1956)
Mound, Touch.
This mound is situated beside the farm road running S from the former West Lodge of Touch, at a distance of 300 yds from the lodge and on the highest point of a low, rocky ridge. It is circular on plan, measures 65ft in diameter at the base and stands to a height of 2ft 6in. Now covered with fine pasture, it appears to have been formerly under cultivation, and the flat top measures 50ft in diameter. The mound may represent a denuded cairn, and three earthfast boulders which protrude through the turf near the W edge may be the remains of a peristalith. The largest stone has a bench-mark carved on it (125.9).
A Food Vessel in the Smith Institute, Stirling is recorded as having come from the Touch estate.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 21 November 1956
Field Visit (September 1978)
Touch NS 750 931 NS79SE 55
This cairn measures 20m in diameter and 0:7m in height; four earthfast boulders on its W side may represent the remains of a kerb.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
(RCAHMS 1963, p. 60, no. 7)
Note (1979)
Touch NS79SE 55
A Food Vessel in the Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling (A 3866) was found on the Touch Estate.
RCAHMS 1979