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Latitude: 54.9945 / 54°59'40"N
Longitude: -4.8639 / 4°51'50"W
OS Eastings: 216891
OS Northings: 570404
OS Grid: NX168704
Mapcode National: GBR 40.WGBB
Mapcode Global: WH2RX.8Q3K
Entry Name: Dirniemow,cairn 700m SW of
Scheduled Date: 18 February 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4975
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 situated immediately E of the Stranraer to Girvan railway line. It measures 10m in diameter and up to 0.4m high. A wide scoop in the middle of the cairn material does not appear to have affected the lower deposits. 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. It measures 30m in diameter, centred on the monument but excluding the fence and the railway to the W, 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 25.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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