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Latitude: 55.4665 / 55°27'59"N
Longitude: -4.5702 / 4°34'12"W
OS Eastings: 237613
OS Northings: 622186
OS Grid: NS376221
Mapcode National: GBR 3D.XL4W
Mapcode Global: WH3QV.RVXP
Entry Name: Glaisnock,ring-ditch 140m SE of
Scheduled Date: 15 December 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5502
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Kyle
Traditional County: Ayrshire
The monument consists of the cropmark remains of a ring-ditch in a field of improved grass just above the River Ayr floodplain. This monument was revealed in aerial photographs taken in 1978.
The ring-ditch is about 15m in overall diameter and the ditch is about 2m wide. There may be a gap on the NE. There are no surface traces of the site, but experience shows that important archaeological deposits may survive below the agricultural soil on cropmark sites.
The area to be scheduled measures 50m in diameter to include the ring-ditch 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 it probably represents the remains of a burial cairn or barrow, few of which are represented as upstanding remains in North Kyle. As such it has the potential to provide information about Bronze Age burial practice and its associated rituals.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NS 32 SE 7.
Reference:
RCAHMS (1985) Inventory for North Kyle, No. 45.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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