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Latitude: 54.9756 / 54°58'32"N
Longitude: -4.9087 / 4°54'31"W
OS Eastings: 213942
OS Northings: 568429
OS Grid: NX139684
Mapcode National: GBR GH8K.D8X
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.K6RF
Entry Name: Pularyan,cairns 370m WNW of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5114
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
Three cairns are situated on the lower slopes of the valley of the Main Water of Luce. The largest, northernmost measures about 12m in diameter and up to 0.6m high. Immediately to the SE is a smaller cairn, 4.5m in diameter by 0.4m high, and 22m to the S is a smaller cairn 5m in diameter and 0.6m high.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 50m square. Its NW corner is 20m S of the corner on the adjacent wall. This includes the monuments and areas around them in which traces of activities associated with their construction and use may survive. The area is marked in red on
the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monuments are of national importance because in sealing and preserving the old ground surface they offer a potential contribution to our understanding of the prehistoric land-use of the upland zone and also of ritual and funerary practices.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 47.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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