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Latitude: 55.4817 / 55°28'54"N
Longitude: -3.661 / 3°39'39"W
OS Eastings: 295124
OS Northings: 622132
OS Grid: NS951221
Mapcode National: GBR 25W1.6S
Mapcode Global: WH5TK.QGVZ
Entry Name: Berries Burn,cairn 800m NNW of Castle Crawford Farm
Scheduled Date: 28 March 1988
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4487
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Crawford
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
The monument is a small prehistoric burial cairn, 6m by 4.6m and 0.5m high, located on a small platform on the steep slope S of the Berries Burn. The area to be scheduled is circular, 20m in diameter, centred on the top of the cairn, as delineated in red on the attached plan.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because, while it is a cairn of common type, it is in a rather unusual location halfway up a steep hillside and overlooking several settlement sites. This spatial relationship is of interest, suggesting contemporaneity with some element of the settlement landscape. The cairn material will seal an old ground surface of considerable interest, lying as it does above all present and past agricultural activity and thus containing evidence for local natural environmental conditions contemporary with the construction of the cairn.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS, Lanarkshire, No. 8.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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