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Cairnerzean,cairns 1330m SSW of

A Scheduled Monument in Mid Galloway and Wigtown West, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

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

Description

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

Statement of Scheduling

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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