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Remains of a cairn. Now tree-covered and reduced to a low mound 40m in diameter, it is presumably that described by Roy (circa 1755) as a 'tumulus or cairn, composed of loose stones, and placed in such a manner as to render it hollow in the middle, thereby forming a sort of parapet which surrounds it at top', a description that sounds like a robbed cairn. Jamieson (circa 1790), who calls the mound 'Sentry Hillock' (Crawford calls it 'Centry Hillock'), noted that a causeway composed of earth and stones jutted south from the mound. It was 54.8 m long, 9.14 m wide, and ended where there has probably been a 'Druidical Temple' as there were three large fallen stones at that point. When visited by the OS in the 1860s, the tenant at Battledykes, Mr Carnegie passed on his belief that the six urns mentioned by Jervise as coming from a tumulus (NO45NE0013) actually came from this site. He added that circa 1827 a Mr Hillocks, the then estate factor, found two urns containing ashes when he was digging stones from the mound. At that time it was planted with trees. Visits in the late 20th century by the OS and the RCAHMS revealed no evidence to suggest the cairn had a hollow centre, nor is there any trace of the causeway or the three stones mentioned by Jamieson.
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