This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 54.9637 / 54°57'49"N
Longitude: -4.9031 / 4°54'11"W
OS Eastings: 214244
OS Northings: 567085
OS Grid: NX142670
Mapcode National: GBR GH8L.GVB
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.NHDM
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,shielings 550m SW of
Scheduled Date: 22 November 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5175
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: shieling
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The foundations of this shieling hut lie amongst the small crags roughly midway between Cairnerzean Farm and Cairnerzean Fell. It lies on a slight rise.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 30m square centred on the ruins of the hut. This will include the shieling and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive. The area is marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance because although insubstantial in itself it is part of a group of such structures scattered amongst pre-improvement farms between Cairnerzean Fell and the Main Water of Luce and together the group offers important information towards understanding the pre-improvement use and layout of the landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 32.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments