Round cairn on Hart Heugh (Earle)
(NT 9701 2578) Robbed Burial Cairn. (1)
No trace of a robbed cairn in this area. The only features visible are rock outcrop and patches of scree. (2)
NT 9701 2578. A modern hikers or shepherds cairn, 1.8m in diameter and 1m high formed by loose stones, shows no evidence of overlying an earlier robbed cairn.
About 84m east of this at NT 9709 2581 are the remains of a sub-rectangular enclosure measuring 9.4m by 6.3m formed by a turf covered stony bank, which may have possibly been mistaken for a robbed cairn. These remains are most probably of an old sheep shelter, from which stone was taken to build a modern shelter 7m to the west. (3)
The scheduling of this monument has been revised from SM 393 to 31713, as of 15-Jan-1999.
The scheduled monument includes a burial cairn of Bronze Age date situated on the summit of Hart Heugh with extensive views in all directions. The cairn is oval in shape and survives as aturf covered mound 4m by 2m and stands 0.3m high. The centre of the cairn has been disturbed, probably the result of an unrecorded investigation in the 19th or early 20th century. Over the centre of the cairn is a smaller stone cairn of relatively recent date.
Despite some disturbance to the cairn it survives in reasonable condition and retains significant archaeological deposits. It is one of a group of broadly contemporary prehistoric monuments on Hart Heugh and forms part of the wider archaeological landscape of the Cheviot Hills.(4)
No trace of a robbed cairn in this area. The only features visible are rock outcrop and patches of scree. (2)
NT 9701 2578. A modern hikers or shepherds cairn, 1.8m in diameter and 1m high formed by loose stones, shows no evidence of overlying an earlier robbed cairn.
About 84m east of this at NT 9709 2581 are the remains of a sub-rectangular enclosure measuring 9.4m by 6.3m formed by a turf covered stony bank, which may have possibly been mistaken for a robbed cairn. These remains are most probably of an old sheep shelter, from which stone was taken to build a modern shelter 7m to the west. (3)
The scheduling of this monument has been revised from SM 393 to 31713, as of 15-Jan-1999.
The scheduled monument includes a burial cairn of Bronze Age date situated on the summit of Hart Heugh with extensive views in all directions. The cairn is oval in shape and survives as aturf covered mound 4m by 2m and stands 0.3m high. The centre of the cairn has been disturbed, probably the result of an unrecorded investigation in the 19th or early 20th century. Over the centre of the cairn is a smaller stone cairn of relatively recent date.
Despite some disturbance to the cairn it survives in reasonable condition and retains significant archaeological deposits. It is one of a group of broadly contemporary prehistoric monuments on Hart Heugh and forms part of the wider archaeological landscape of the Cheviot Hills.(4)
N1500
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1955; E Geary
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1976; S Ainsworth
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1976; S Ainsworth
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