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Latitude: 54.9533 / 54°57'11"N
Longitude: -4.9121 / 4°54'43"W
OS Eastings: 213617
OS Northings: 565956
OS Grid: NX136659
Mapcode National: GBR GH7M.BQ5
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.JR3L
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,cairn 1850m SW of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5029
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
This cairn is situated in a bottom of a hollow in the peat 700m S of the summit of Cairnerzean and 20m N of the old march dyke between Cairnerzean and Little Larg. It is about 14m in diameter but has been robbed down to a ring of stones surrounding a rock outcrop 1m high. The area proposed for scheduling is a circle of 40m diameter centred on this rock outcrop, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as part of the numerous and varied group of ?Lingdowey Cairns?. Comparison among the members of this group would allow greater understanding of the range and variety of prehistoric burial practice. The cairn is itself well enough preserved to protect buried soils beneath it and therefore protects potential evidence of pre-cairn land-use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 14.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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