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Latitude: 54.9525 / 54°57'8"N
Longitude: -4.9053 / 4°54'19"W
OS Eastings: 214050
OS Northings: 565845
OS Grid: NX140658
Mapcode National: GBR GH8M.7TV
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.MSB7
Entry Name: Little Larg,cairns 2150m W of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5031
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field clearance cairn, cairnfield
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This group of at least 11 cairns is situated on unimproved pasture on a terrace at the foot of the NE slopes of Cairnscarrow. The area proposed for scheduling is a 100m square aligned N-S with the SW corner at NX1400 6580 as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as part of a larger group of cairns around the Lingdowey Burn including the larger Lingdowey Cairns and several scattered cairn fields. It is of importance in its own right, for the evidence it presents of the former extent and nature of agricultural activity and for the evidence, accessible to excavation, which is preserved in the underlying soil, with regard to the former land-use and agricultural economy of the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 68.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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