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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lyon Bridge Cairn Alternative Name: Uaigh An T-seanalairCountry: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Kenmore Nearest Village: Fortingall
Map Ref: NN73174657 Landranger Map Number: 51
Latitude: 56.593829N Longitude: 4.067084W
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 |
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 |
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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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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markj99 visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Head for Fortingall. Cross the Lyon Bridge c. 0.5 miles W of Fortingall. There is a large passing place c. 300 yards later on the R with room to park up. Walk back c. 100 yards to a gateway. Walk c. 200 yards ESE across the field to see Lyon Bridge Cairn, a small dimple in a flat field. The recumbent stone on the NE edge of the cairn has multiple cup marks. It looks out of place on a small ring cairn. Its original purpose is uncertain.
This cairn and cup-marked stone is recorded as Canmore ID 25002 which says this is "a cairn of small stones overlaid with earth, 18' across the flat summit, 30' in diameter at base and 2 1/2' high, surrounded by a ditch 9' to 13'9" wide and 2'4" deep with an outer bank about 3' broad. Excavation by Stewart in 1884 revealed fragments of human bone below two small flagstones, south of the centre and near the base of the cairn. Stewart classifies this site as a disc-barrow but neither the plan nor the description suggest this. It is more like a bowl barrow with a ditch and outer bank. A cup marked stone 8' long by 3'2" wide lies in the ditch. It bears 9 cups on the west side and one on the north end. This stone is said to have stood upright on the top of the mound, but in 1838 it lay a short distance from NN74NW 6, having been undermined about the end of the 18th century. Watson gives the local name of the site as "Uaigh an t-Seanalair" - the General's Grave - and the tradition that it is the grave of either Pontius Pilate or his father." Their 1975 report records this as "a turf-covered mound bounded by a ditch and outer bank ..... the name 'Uaigh an t-Seanalair' and the tradition concerning Pontius Pilate is not known locally. The cup marked stone, not in situ ..... its original position is uncertain."
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