Scalpsie Cairn

Nearest town:
Rothesay (6km NNE)
OS reference:
NS0574458676
OS sheet:
63
Latitude:
55° 46' 55.88 N
Longitude:
5° 5' 53.32 W
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Images

Image of Scalpsie Cairn (Cairn) by GLADMAN

Note the vanguard of the evening’s onslaught of rain!

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 5, 2016
Image of Scalpsie Cairn (Cairn) by GLADMAN

I found it very difficult to discern any real structure to the site, although the large slabs and pits were rather suggestive; however the Coastal Archaeology Record Enhancement Survey of 2009-10 concluded that “this may well have been a cairn with an architectural façade at the SW and a passage to a chamber towards the E that is no longer visible. The two pits in the N with associated slabs are probably later cist insertions into the cairn. The feature is much degraded and large quantities of the original material are missing”.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 5, 2016

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