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Latitude: 55.4952 / 55°29'42"N
Longitude: -4.0205 / 4°1'13"W
OS Eastings: 272451
OS Northings: 624233
OS Grid: NS724242
Mapcode National: GBR 04CW.CY
Mapcode Global: WH4S8.64QN
Entry Name: Cairn Table,two cairns
Scheduled Date: 7 February 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4631
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Douglas
County: East Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Ballochmyle
Traditional County: Ayrshire
The monuments are two burial cairns of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age, sited on the summit of the hill known as Cairn Table. The western cairn measures 12m in diameter and 1m high. The eastern cairn lies 30m to the ENE. It measures 16m in diameter and is 3.5m high. The western cairn has been heavily robbed to provide material for a modern memorial cairn nearby, it has also had an OS triangulation pillar erected on it. The eastern cairn appears undisturbed. Both cairns will cover burials (cremated or unburnt, probably in cists) and may contain further secondary burials. They are also likely to cover contemporary land surfaces.
An area measuring 70m ENE-WSW by 30m transversely, including both cairns, and an area between which may contain further burials, is proposed for scheduling.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The cairns are of national importance to the themes of late Neolithic/early Bronze Age burial and ceremonial practices; study of the contemporary land surface buried by the cairns would be of national importance to the theme of late Neolithic/early Bronze Age land use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the site as NS72SW 1.
References:
RCAHMS 1978, Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments, Edinburgh, No. 25, 47.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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