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Latitude: 55.5039 / 55°30'14"N
Longitude: -3.7381 / 3°44'17"W
OS Eastings: 290311
OS Northings: 624719
OS Grid: NS903247
Mapcode National: GBR 24BS.HT
Mapcode Global: WH5TB.KX4J
Entry Name: Netherton,cairn 800m SW of
Scheduled Date: 31 March 1988
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4513
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Crawfordjohn
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
The monument is a small cairn, 7.3m in diameter and 0.5m high, located on a level shoulder at the NW end of the summit ridge of Black Hill. It is a prehistoric burial cairn. The area to be scheduled is a circle 20m in diameter, centred on the highest part of the cairn.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as one of a small group of prehistoric burial cairns and barrows located on a single hill and offering the potential for comparative study of such monuments within a small area. Also of importance is the ground surface sealed below the cairn, which may hold evidence for environmental conditions prevailing up to the date of construction.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NS92SW 29.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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