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Latitude: 54.9622 / 54°57'44"N
Longitude: -4.9086 / 4°54'30"W
OS Eastings: 213887
OS Northings: 566939
OS Grid: NX138669
Mapcode National: GBR GH8L.DCM
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.KJSQ
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,shielings and enclosures 950m SW of
Scheduled Date: 12 November 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5209
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: shieling
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This group of 19 shieling huts and 2 enclosures stretches for about 470m along the E side of Cairnerzean Fell. The area proposed for scheduling is a rectangle 100m WSW-ENE and 470m SSE-NNW with its S point at 13906670. This includes all the shielings and the enclosures and an area around and amongst them in which traces of activities associated with their construction and use and the surrounding land-use may survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
These monuments are of national importance because they indicate a similar land-use pattern over an unknown time of a limited area of marginal land near the edge of the improved land, and may therefore contain important information regarding movements in the upper limit of cultivation over time.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 34.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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