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Latitude: 54.9814 / 54°58'53"N
Longitude: -4.8498 / 4°50'59"W
OS Eastings: 217738
OS Northings: 568919
OS Grid: NX177689
Mapcode National: GBR 40.XCL3
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.G1TZ
Entry Name: Craigbirnoch,clearance cairns 600m E of
Scheduled Date: 18 February 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4946
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field clearance cairn, cairnfield
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of at least eighteen field clearance cairns, between which may survive the remains of timber structures, of the late Neolithic or Bronze Age. Most are less than 3m in diameter but one measures 6.5m in diameter and 0.5m high. The area to be scheduled includes the cairns and an area around them within which traces of activity associated with their use may be found. It measures 150m ENE-WSW by 100m transversely.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as field clearance cairns of the late Neolithic or Bronze Age which have the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement and agriculture in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival of a number of monuments of similar date in the area; 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
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NE 91.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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