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Latitude: 54.9675 / 54°58'3"N
Longitude: -4.8917 / 4°53'30"W
OS Eastings: 214992
OS Northings: 567479
OS Grid: NX149674
Mapcode National: GBR GH9L.22M
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.TDTP
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,cairns 300m E of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Last Amended: 21 June 1994
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5134
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comrises two small burial cairns set on a grassy terrace next to the public road on the S of a rocky knoll. All that survives of the larger cairn is a rim of material between 0.3m and 0.5m high. The smaller cairn is about 0.6m high. The area proposed for scheduling is a 50m square with its SW corner at 14966745, to include both cairns and an area around them in which activities associated with their construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as part of a group of cairns situated along the Lingdowey Burn. Both cairns are important because of this spatial relationship and contribution that this offers to our understanding of the prehistoric ritual use of the landscape. The smaller cairn is of further importance because the burial soil beneath it contains evidence, accessible to excavation, which could add to our understanding of the pre-cairn agricultural and environment of the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 49.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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