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Latitude: 54.9845 / 54°59'4"N
Longitude: -5.169 / 5°10'8"W
OS Eastings: 197331
OS Northings: 570138
OS Grid: NW973701
Mapcode National: GBR FHMJ.M2S
Mapcode Global: WH1QM.KZS6
Entry Name: North Cairn,cairn 370m WSW of
Scheduled Date: 18 February 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4958
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Kirkcolm
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a burial cairn of the neolithic or Bronze Age situated at the N end of Cairn Hill. It measures about 28m in diameter and up to 1.4m high. Small quarry pits in the cairn matrix have not affected the important base of the monument. An enclosure measuring 9.5m in diameter within a stony bank 3m thick and up to 0.4m high overlies the SE edge of the cairn.
The area to be scheduled includes the cairn, the enclosure, and an area around them within which traces of activity associated with their use may befound. It measures 50m in diameter, centred on the monument but excluding the land to the N of the march dyke between South Cairnand North Cairn, as marked in red on the attached map.
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.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NW 97 SE 9.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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