More information : (SX 64707740) Cairn (NR) (1)
Remains of a 48ft diameter cairn and a cist. Two side stones of the cist are still in place and there are remains of a retaining circle (2). The cist was examined in 1895/6 but nothing was found. It was surrounded by a double retaining circle and a stone row lead from it north west, of which ten stones remained, but these had sunk into the bog leaving only their tops showing (3). (2-3)
On a ridge S.E. of Lakehead Hill at 412m. O.D., in a clearing
in Bellever Plantation, is the remains of a cairn and cist (see
ground photographs) The cairn has been excavated and is spread
downhill. It now measures 25.6m. by 19.5m. and 1.2m. high with
two displaced stones of what may have been a retaining circle.
The two remaining side stones indicate that the cist was aligned
NW-SE and measured 1.7m. by 0.6m. and 0.9m. deep.
The stone row which falls in an afforested area could not be
identified and has probably been destroyed.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on M.S.D. (4)
SX 64727739. A large cairn with central cist, sited on the eastern upper slope of Lakehead Hill within an area of conifer plantation. The cairn lies within a forest clearing and is accessible via a track from the main north-south forest path.
The maximum diameter of the spread of cairn material is 18m and the height is up to 0.6m. It is made up of a mixture of stone and earth and the remains are now turf-covered. The original profile cannot be determined as the whole of the upper surface has been heavily disturbed by early investigators, leaving a series of mounds and pits. A large trench 7m long by up to 5m wide and 0.4m deep has been cut from the western edge of the cairn, towards the central area. It connects to a second hollow dug at the very centre of the cairn exposing two granite slabs which form opposite sides of a cist. The slabs are both 1.7m long by 0.2m thick and 0.6m wide, oriented north-west to south-east. Five stones of a kerb are visable in around the south and south-west arc of the circumference and further examples may have survived, beneath the cairn material. The stone row was not traced. (5)
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