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Latitude: 54.9909 / 54°59'27"N
Longitude: -4.8653 / 4°51'55"W
OS Eastings: 216786
OS Northings: 570009
OS Grid: NX167700
Mapcode National: GBR 40.WN0N
Mapcode Global: WH2RX.7TF9
Entry Name: Dirniemow,cairn 1050m SW of
Scheduled Date: 18 February 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4950
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a burial cairn of the late neolithic or Bronze Age. It measures 16m in diameter and up to 1.2m high. The cairn material has been disturbed but the more important base of the cairn has not been damaged. Three mounds of stone immediately S of the monument may be the result of the quarrying of the cairn surface. The area to be scheduled includes the cairn and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. The area measures 30m in diameter, centred on the monument, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a burial cairn of the late Neolithic or Bronze Age which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric funerary and ritual practices. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other burial cairns in the vicinity; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the development and organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 17 SE 3.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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