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Latitude: 56.1671 / 56°10'1"N
Longitude: -4.054 / 4°3'14"W
OS Eastings: 272551
OS Northings: 699062
OS Grid: NS725990
Mapcode National: GBR 17.HF6V
Mapcode Global: WH4NY.P8P1
Entry Name: Blairdrummond, barrow 150m E of Old Farm
Scheduled Date: 17 December 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6555
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow
Location: Kincardine (Stirling)
County: Stirling
Electoral Ward: Trossachs and Teith
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises the remains of a burial mound of Neolithic or Bronze Age date.
The monument lies in woodland adjacent to a caravan site. It comprises a substantial tree-covered mound some 21m E-W by 25m with a height of some 5m. The mound is characteristic of burial monuments of the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods.
Superficial excavation in the 1920s revealed two cist burials, and a cremation contained within a Bronze Age pot. It is likely that many more burials survive within and below the mound.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the mound and an area around it in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It is an irregular oval with maximum dimensions of 50m NNW-SSE by 40m as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a fine field monument and because of its potential to add to our understanding of Neolithic and Bronze Age ritual and funerary practice.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NS 79 NW 2.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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