Round cairn on Dour Hill (Rochester and Byrness)
Two small burial cairns near long cairn (NT 70 SE 10), 10m diameter, 1.5m high. Not on MoD range. (1)
Food vessel burial on Dour Hill discovered during the course of tree planting in 1975. The capstone had already been removed by machine before it was investigated by G Jobey. The cist was orientated east-west and measured 1.4m x 0.8m internally. The cist was probably covered originally by a low cairn. Two possible additional burial cairns were discovered several metres to the SSE and WNW. (2)
A Bronze Age pottery bowl and a northern tripartite vase found in a cist. The bowl was found in and outside the cist with a contracted burial, disturbed by the insertion of a second interment. The secondary interment, a contracted inhumation was accompanied by a tripartite vase. (3)
The cist burial in the ring cairn excavated by Jobey was the subject of a topographic survey by The Archaeological Practice in March 1996. The two additional cairns were not located. The ring cairn is visible as a roughly circular ring of sandstone blocks on average between 0.15m to 0.3m in size. An exposed cist is visible in the centre with its capstone partially overlying its south west corner. The cist measures 0.6m by 1.47m by 0.4m deep internally. The capstone measures 2.3m by 1.5m by 0.3m. It is believed to be an undisturbed ring cairn. (4)
Scheduled. (5)
Food vessel burial on Dour Hill discovered during the course of tree planting in 1975. The capstone had already been removed by machine before it was investigated by G Jobey. The cist was orientated east-west and measured 1.4m x 0.8m internally. The cist was probably covered originally by a low cairn. Two possible additional burial cairns were discovered several metres to the SSE and WNW. (2)
A Bronze Age pottery bowl and a northern tripartite vase found in a cist. The bowl was found in and outside the cist with a contracted burial, disturbed by the insertion of a second interment. The secondary interment, a contracted inhumation was accompanied by a tripartite vase. (3)
The cist burial in the ring cairn excavated by Jobey was the subject of a topographic survey by The Archaeological Practice in March 1996. The two additional cairns were not located. The ring cairn is visible as a roughly circular ring of sandstone blocks on average between 0.15m to 0.3m in size. An exposed cist is visible in the centre with its capstone partially overlying its south west corner. The cist measures 0.6m by 1.47m by 0.4m deep internally. The capstone measures 2.3m by 1.5m by 0.3m. It is believed to be an undisturbed ring cairn. (4)
Scheduled. (5)
N70
EXCAVATION, Dour Hill, Redesdale Forest 1975
MEASURED SURVEY, Dour Hill Long Cairn and nearby Round Cairn, Upper Redesdale 1996; The Archaeological Practice
MEASURED SURVEY, Dour Hill Long Cairn and nearby Round Cairn, Upper Redesdale 1996; The Archaeological Practice
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