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Latitude: 54.9573 / 54°57'26"N
Longitude: -4.897 / 4°53'49"W
OS Eastings: 214606
OS Northings: 566354
OS Grid: NX146663
Mapcode National: GBR GH8L.ZLT
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.RN9K
Entry Name: Little Larg,cairns 1600m W of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5107
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
The monument consists of a large prehistoric burial cairn, one of the ?Lingdowey Cairns?, and a spread of at least 17 small cairns, which may be associated with funerary practices, agriculture or both. The large cairn is 17m in diameter and now stands to only 1m high. On its W side it has been disturbed and is much lower. The smaller cairns are all 2m or less in diameter and none stands more than 0.5m high. They all lie downslope from the large cairn.
The area to be scheduled is irregular in shape, bounded on the W by the Lingdowey Burn, and includes the large cairn, all of the distinct small cairns and an area of ground in which other less distinctive cairns occur.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a good field example of a prehistoric burial cairn in close association with an extensive cairnfield. In addition, study of the monument by excavation offers the possibility of relative dating which would help clarify the range of funerary practices in the region and also relate such practices to contemporary agricultural land clearance.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 11.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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