© Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Boundary data © Historic Environment Scotland
Erskine's Knap is a burial mound situated 600 metres south-east of Scotston in Kincardineshire, northeastern Scotland. The monument occupies land underlain by the Strathmore Group sandstone formation, a geological sequence dating to the Emsian period that also incorporates bands of conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone. This stable sandstone bedrock provided firm ground for the construction and long-term survival of the mound, which would have been raised during the Bronze Age as a funerary monument for a person or family of local significance.
The mound represents a form of burial practice established across Scotland during the second and early first millennia BC, when cremated remains were often deposited beneath earthen or stone heaps as markers of status and territorial claim. Erskine's Knap occupies the undulating countryside south-east of Scotston, a region of mixed agricultural land that has been worked for millennia.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5168, recognising its archaeological importance and the information its internal structure and any surviving deposits may hold about Bronze Age burial practices and social organisation in the Mearns district of Kincardineshire.
Erskine's Knap,burial mound 600m SE of Scotston is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5168. View the official record →
Erskine's Knap is a burial mound situated 600 metres south-east of Scotston in Kincardineshire, northeastern Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5168.
Erskine's Knap,burial mound 600m SE of Scotston is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5168.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn of Shiels, cairn (1.9 km), Cairn of Arthurhouse, 260m W of Thornylea (2.7 km), Fordoun,homestead moat (3.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Erskine's Knap,burial mound 600m SE of Scotston's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Erskine's Knap,burial mound 600m SE of Scotston stands on Strathmore Group, bedrock that formed in the Emsian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.