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the cairn and the top of the bank of the burn
are suggestive of a ruined cist. The altitude is about 900'

Cairn Threip Moor O.S. [Ordnance Survey] Tumulus.
This cairn is situated on the crest of the watershed
between the Poldivan Burn and the Capel Water
about 1/4 m. [mile] W. [West] of the confluence of the streams and
nearly 1/2 m. [mile] ENE. [East North East] of where the road running South:
:ward from Mitchellslacks crosses the former.
It has not been excavated and measures
some 50' in diameter and 6' in elevation.
As I thought my lad was tired I left him at
the roadside with the bicycles and set off by
myself to find two groups "tumuli" on the
N. [North] side of the Capel water. In directing my steps
I pay little regard to the position of contour lines
on my map and found to my cost on this oc:
:casion that they were unpleasantly close together
when I had crossed the water. Up I toiled in
a sultry atmosphere for a greater distance than
I estimated to find at the top, as I supposed,
a small group of utterly unimportant small
cairns

Small cairn Nether Dod.
At the SE. [South East] end of Nether Dod on the lower end
of the haunch of the hill overlooking the Capel
Water is a small group of cairns measuring
some 12' in diameter and very low in elevation.
They lie at an altitude of some 850' above sea level.