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Latitude: 54.9591 / 54°57'32"N
Longitude: -4.9779 / 4°58'40"W
OS Eastings: 209434
OS Northings: 566775
OS Grid: NX094667
Mapcode National: GBR GH2L.QLK
Mapcode Global: WH2S1.HMS4
Entry Name: White Cairn, cairn 1600m NNE of Beoch
Scheduled Date: 5 October 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7403
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises a cairn of prehistoric date, visible as a stony mound.
The monument lies in moorland at around 210m OD. It comprises an oval cairn measuring about 19m NNW-SSE by 16m transversely, surviving to a height of about 0.4m. A number of quarry pits in the surface of the cairn indicate that the upper part of the cairn has been robbed for stone, but the original contents may survive undisturbed. The monument is a burial mound of a type characteristic of the Bronze Age.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is circular with a diameter of 40m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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