Sorbie
Cairn (Prehistoric), Cist (Prehistoric)
Site Name Sorbie
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric), Cist (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Sorbie Bridge; Sorbie Burn
Canmore ID 67782
Site Number NY39SE 11
NGR NY 3672 9003
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67782
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Ewes
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY39SE 11 3672 9003.
(Approx NY 368 900) The remains of a large, circular cairn lie some 50yds up the wooded glen above Sorbie road bridge, and on the N side of the path. Only a segment consisting of about a quarter of the original, and some 7ft in height, remains. It is said that a cist was found many years ago when the cairn was removed for road metal.
RCAHMS 1920; J and R Hyslop 1912
NY 3672 9003. The remains of a cairn, as described, in dense level woodland above Sorbie Burn. Its northern half has been completely robbed, but enough remains to suggest an original diameter of 20m with a height in excess of 3m. The cairn is known at nearby Sorbie farm, but there is no knowledge of a cist or finds from here.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (JRL) 28 September 1979
(Named Sorbie Bridge and location cited as NY 368 900). Situated on gently-sloping land, now overgrown with brushwood, and facing E towards the Ewes Water, the RCAHMS record only a quarter of the cairn surviving to a height of 7 ft (2.1m) in 1912; rather more can now be recognised and there may have been additions of clearance material since that date. A cist is said to have been found many years ago when road metalling material was being removed from the cairn.
M J Yates 1984.
Field Visit (November 1980)
Sorbie NY 367 900 NY39SE 11
A cairn measuring about 21.5m in diameter and 2m in height is situated 100m SE of Sorbie farmhouse; a cist is said to have been found when the E half was removed for road metal.
RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980
(Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 62; RCAHMS 1920, pp. 83-4, No. 222)
Note (1997)
NY 3672 9003 NY39SE 11
Listed as cairn.
RCAHMS 1997.