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Latitude: 54.9497 / 54°56'59"N
Longitude: -4.8367 / 4°50'12"W
OS Eastings: 218430
OS Northings: 565359
OS Grid: NX184653
Mapcode National: GBR 41.Z8M6
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.PV0B
Entry Name: Barnshangan,cairn 450m W of
Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4896
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a burial cairn of the neolithic or Bronze Age situated to the E of Hill Malbreedia Burn. It measures at least 21m in diameter and up to 2m high. The upper cairn matrix has been disturbed but the important base has not been touched. Field-cleared stones have been dumped around the edge of the monument. The area to be scheduled includes the cairn and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. It measures 30m in diameter, centred on the monument, as marked in red on the attached map. A modern dyke on the W of the area is specifically excluded.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a burial cairn of the Neolithic or Bronze Age which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric funerary and ritual practices. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of other burial cairns in the vicinity; the study of this group has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NE 3.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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