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Latitude: 54.8242 / 54°49'27"N
Longitude: -4.7025 / 4°42'9"W
OS Eastings: 226481
OS Northings: 551056
OS Grid: NX264510
Mapcode National: GBR GHRY.YHK
Mapcode Global: WH2SY.Q0WH
Entry Name: Garheugh,cairn 1050m NW of
Scheduled Date: 22 May 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4679
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Mochrum
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a Neolithic/Bronze Age burial cairn measuring 15m (NS) x 16m (EW) and 2.5m high. The area to be scheduled includes ground in which traces of activities associated with the construction and use of the cairn will survive and measures 35m (NS) x 36m (EW).
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The cairn is of national importance because of its good field characteristics and because of its potential contribution to understanding of burial and ceremonial activities in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. It is of further importance for the record of contemporary vegetation which will be sealed in the old ground surface under it.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 25 SE 11.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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