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Latitude: 54.9381 / 54°56'17"N
Longitude: -4.8143 / 4°48'51"W
OS Eastings: 219813
OS Northings: 564007
OS Grid: NX198640
Mapcode National: GBR GHHN.FJZ
Mapcode Global: WH2SB.04RQ
Entry Name: Hardcroft,cairn 1400m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4936
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 neolithic or Bronze Agesituated to the S of the track to Kilhern. Originally identified asa hut circle, it measures 8.8m in diameter and 0.3m high with aninternal enclosed area 3.7m in diameter. There is no entrance. Itsform suggests that it is a small version of a ring-cairn. The areato be scheduled includes the cairn and an area around it withinwhich traces of activity associated with its use may be found. Itmeasures 20m in diameter, centred on the monument, as marked in redon the attached map. The track to the NE is specifically excluded.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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