Dunfallandy


Site type: cairn

Parish: Logierait

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NN 9474 5700

Lat / long: 56.6929734, -3.719529861

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

This cairn stands on the floodplain of the River Tummel as it sweeps past Pitlochry and measures approximately 16.0m in diameter, reaching a height of around 2.0m at the centre. Around it's base are the remains of an elliptical stony bank approximately 3.5m wide, most obvious to the NW but now very faint to the SE. Overall this bank measures around 31.0m by 28.5m NW-SE. An apparent ditch between this bank and the mound may have occurred naturally over the years.

It is said that around the cairn there used to be a ring of standing stones, but that these were removed around 1840 to repair the river embankment, suggesting that this may originally have been a stone circle with central cairn.

References (books)

  • Pitlochry Past and Present
  • John Dixon
  • Pitlochry, 1925

  • Pitlochry district: its topography, archaeology and history
  • Hugh Mitchell
  • Pitlochry, 1923

  • Guide to Prehistoric Scotland
  • Richard Feachem
  • London, 1963

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    created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, last updated Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 at 11:14 pm