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Latitude: 54.9478 / 54°56'52"N
Longitude: -4.9119 / 4°54'43"W
OS Eastings: 213604
OS Northings: 565341
OS Grid: NX136653
Mapcode National: GBR GH7M.QSQ
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.JW6T
Entry Name: Little Larg,cairn 2700m WSW of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5035
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, Cairn Kenny, lies on the N end of Cairnscarrow 530m N of the OS triangulation station. It is visible in the bottom of a depression in the peat and is about 17m in diameter but has been reduced to little more than a rim of cairn material enclosing a scatter of stones.
This would have been one of the most prominent of the Lingdowey group of cairns. It has been badly robbed but there is sufficient material surviving beneath the peat to protect pre-cairn features including buried soils containing evidence of pre-cairn land-use.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 20m radius circle based on the centre of the cairn, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance for the evidence it contains regarding prehistoric funerary practices, both in its own right and by comparison with the other members of the Lingdowey group of cairns. Buried soils below the monument should preserve important evidence for pre-cairn land-use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 5.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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