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Latitude: 54.9808 / 54°58'51"N
Longitude: -4.8488 / 4°50'55"W
OS Eastings: 217799
OS Northings: 568850
OS Grid: NX177688
Mapcode National: GBR 40.XCTZ
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.H29F
Entry Name: Craigbirnoch,cairn 710m E of
Scheduled Date: 18 December 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4932
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 late Neolithic or Bronze Age, situated on a terrace to the E of the New Luce to Barrhill road. Measuring 15m in diameter and 1.4m high, it has been slightly disturbed on top. 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. The area is a circle measuring 30m in diameter, centred on the monument, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a prehistoric burial cairn 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 development and organisation of the prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NE 66.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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