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Latitude: 54.9729 / 54°58'22"N
Longitude: -4.9176 / 4°55'3"W
OS Eastings: 213356
OS Northings: 568146
OS Grid: NX133681
Mapcode National: GBR GH7K.N5S
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.F8HK
Entry Name: Pularyan,cairns 950m WSW of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5106
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 eight small cairns and a stony bank is about 300m W of the sheep ree 600m W of Pularyan. They are visible as moss and cropped grass mounds amongst the tussocky grass. There is also a mound of stones about 5m across visible in the stream bed to the S of the cairns.
The scheduling proposal covers an area 100m square aligned N-S with its SW corner at 13306810 as marked in red on the attached map. This includes the cairns and banks and any traces of activities associated with them and the related land-use which may survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
These monuments are of national importance because of their potential for explaining the prehistoric land-use and settlement of the upland zone and the subsequent retreat from it.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 82.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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