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Latitude: 55.0717 / 55°4'18"N
Longitude: -2.9396 / 2°56'22"W
OS Eastings: 340096
OS Northings: 575648
OS Grid: NY400756
Mapcode National: GBR 79XS.CR
Mapcode Global: WH7Z3.TSCC
Entry Name: Park House,cairn 730m SSE of
Scheduled Date: 26 March 1987
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4407
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Canonbie
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
The monument is a cairn, a burial monument of the early Bronze Age, measuring 23m in diameter and 2.2m in height. It seems to have suffered little disturbance although a depression on the W side may be a relatively recent corn-drying kiln. Complex remains of burials and rituals associated with them may survive. An area 50m in diameter to include the cairn and an area around it, in which remains of associated activities are likely to survive, is proposed for scheduling.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance to the theme of early Bronze Age funerary and ceremonial activity. It is of national importance because it is a well preserved example of a type of monument of which few exist unmutilated in the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS record the site as NY47NW 9.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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