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Latitude: 54.956 / 54°57'21"N
Longitude: -4.9044 / 4°54'15"W
OS Eastings: 214125
OS Northings: 566235
OS Grid: NX141662
Mapcode National: GBR GH8M.27R
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.MPSJ
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,cairns 1330m SSW of
Scheduled Date: 12 November 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5110
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field clearance cairn, cairnfield; Prehistoric ritual and funera
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
A large robbed burial cairn is visible on a spur to the SE of Cairnerzean Fell under close cropped grass distinctive from the coarse cover around it. Several clearance cairns are situated downhill from the large cairn, to its S and SE.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 100m square which includes all the cairns and an area around and amongst them in which traces of activities associated with their construction and use may survive. This is marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance because the group displays an association of ritual and agricultural activity. Although robbed there is still enough of the burial cairn to indicate its full size and to preserve buried soils. It is in addition one of an important group of cairn along the Lingdowey Burn.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 40 and 78.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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