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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ca Knowe (Hawick) Alternative Name: Auld Ca Knowe; Hero's Grave Cairn; Caa KnoweCountry: Scotland
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County: Scottish Borders Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Hawick
Map Ref: NT4793409075
Latitude: 55.372886N Longitude: 2.823104W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Anne T visited on 3rd Jun 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Ca Knowe Cairn, Hawick (aka Hero's Grave): Simply marked as ‘cairn’ on Trigpointing UK's OS map, we could see this cairn from Lord’s Tree Cairn. There is a proper tarmacked footpath up to the modern standing stone with plaque on it. Closer to, it is much larger than it appears from the mark on the map, and has a proper tarmacked path up to it.
Unfortunately, both on our way to our next site, and our way back to Hawick, the monument was surrounded by a number of very large cows with their calves, so we decided not to risk upsetting them and drove on after having taken some photographs.
Situated not far from Lord's Tree Cairn, this is simply marked as a cairn on the OS map. Canmore ID 54041 tells us that "a cairn of unrecorded size stood on Auld Ca Knowe, at a height of 710 OD and was demolished for stones in 1811 when a cist containing human bones and flint implements was discovered." The entry goes onto record: "this feature is described in the Ordnance Survey Name Book (of 1858) as a 'small tumulus with a ring round it, situated on a slight eminence'."
The cairn is now shaped like a small motte, topped with a modern-day standing stone with a plaque.
Border Archaeology also has an entry for this site - see their web page for Ca Knowe Cairn, which confirms this used to be the site of an ancient burial mound, locally known as Hero's Grave. The site now has local importance, being at the southern extremity of the Common, used up until 1777 for the Mustering of the Burgesses in the perambulation of the marches. In 1911 the Callant's Club erected a cairn to mark the spot, and the site and access path were given to the town by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1937. The Border Archaeology entry has a full transcription of what is recorded on the plaque.
At the time of our visit, the cairn was inhabited by a number of cows with calves, so we kept our distance.
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