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Latitude: 55.0038 / 55°0'13"N
Longitude: -4.967 / 4°58'1"W
OS Eastings: 210344
OS Northings: 571716
OS Grid: NX103717
Mapcode National: GBR GH3H.3L5
Mapcode Global: WH2RV.NHZD
Entry Name: Claywarnies, cairn
Scheduled Date: 13 December 2000
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6890
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a cairn, a burial mound of a type characteristic of the Neolithic or early Bronze Age (c.4000-1500BC).
The cairn is situated on a low hill at around 200m OD. It is roughly circular, and measures approximately 19m in diameter by about 1m in height. At the centre, three slabs have been recorded protruding through the cairn. These slabs indicate the presence of a burial chamber. One slab, triangular in section and measuring about 0.5m by 0.2m, may mark the SE end of a chamber, while the other two slabs would form part of the SW side. Each of these slabs measures about 0.5m by 0.15m, giving a possible chamber length of at least 2.5m. There is no visible trace of an entrance passage. On the NNE side of the cairn a thin slab measuring about 0.85m in length by 0.15m wide is set upright amongst the cairn material in a roughly N-S alignment. Modern sheep shelters or grouse shooting butts have been built on the cairn.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described above and an area around and between them within which related material may be expected to survive. It is circular with a diameter of 40m, as shown in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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