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Latitude: 55.0092 / 55°0'33"N
Longitude: -5.0389 / 5°2'19"W
OS Eastings: 205776
OS Northings: 572521
OS Grid: NX057725
Mapcode National: GBR FHYG.LP9
Mapcode Global: WH1QP.KCR6
Entry Name: Finnarts Bridge,cairn 620m SE of
Scheduled Date: 9 December 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5477
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Ballantrae
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Ayrshire
The monument consists of a cairn is situated on a low knoll on the W shoulder of Haggstone Moor. The cairn has been robbed in antiquity and reduced to a rim of cairn material about 15.8m in diameter overall with eight kerb-stones on the SW. The area to be scheduled measures 55m in diameter, to include the cairn and an area around in which associated remains may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because, despite later disturbance, this burial cairn still has the potential to provide information about Bronze Age burial practice; furthermore, the old ground surface, which the cairn seals, has the potential to produce environmental data which will enhance our understanding of the contemporary prehistoric environment.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 07 SE 12.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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