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Latitude: 54.9523 / 54°57'8"N
Longitude: -4.9314 / 4°55'53"W
OS Eastings: 212380
OS Northings: 565899
OS Grid: NX123658
Mapcode National: GBR GH6M.7X3
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.6SZB
Entry Name: Cairnerzean Fell,farmstead and enclosure 1450m SW of
Scheduled Date: 21 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5130
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The farmstead and enclosure are situated on a low promontory 1200m SE of the summit of Braid Fell on open moorland. There is cropped grass and moss within the enclosure and by the buildings and some clumps of sedge. The grass is coarser outwith the enclosure. There is a stony bank, somewhat obscured, 100m away to the SE running up a shallow gully.
The area proposed for scheduling is a rectangle 200m N-S and 250m E-W with its SW corner at NX 1225 6580. This area will include both monuments and an area 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 farmstead is of national importance because it is one of several pre-improvement farmsteads situated well into the poorer marginal land. As such it can tell us much about the pre-improvement use of this part of the landscape. The bank is important either through its association with the farmstead or as a surviving part of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 81.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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