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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Courthill CairnCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.665 km away from the location you searched for.
County: North Ayrshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Map Ref: NS29244958
Latitude: 55.709494N Longitude: 4.719458W
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Canmore Site 40989
Court Hill barrow, was excavated in 1872 before it was covered in debris from a nearby pit. Before excavation, it was 27m in diameter and about 4.5m high. There is a tradition that this was a justice seat, "A stone, which tradition asserts to have supported the gallows, formerly stood a little east of the moat."
Excavation revealed a central rectangular enclosure, 13.5m by 6m, built of stakes, and incorporating in its longer sides two opposed pairs of large posts. Inside this enclosure were two pits placed 8m apart, each of which had formerly held large wooden posts; parts of these were still preserved. Some evidence of cremation was found between the posts, at the western end. An inhumation, accompanied by a beaker (N/MR type) was found in a cist-like structure, probably secondary to the barrow's construction. The beaker is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession no: EG 11) together with a number of small finds from the excavation, namely two doubled-edge flint knives, four scrapers, and eighteen chips (Acc No: AB 1-24).
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