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Latitude: 55.7212 / 55°43'16"N
Longitude: -3.5721 / 3°34'19"W
OS Eastings: 301348
OS Northings: 648654
OS Grid: NT013486
Mapcode National: GBR 32H8.GY
Mapcode Global: WH5SG.3G8C
Entry Name: Kersewell Mains, cairn 450m NE of
Scheduled Date: 9 May 2005
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM11201
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Carnwath
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
The monument is a cairn of prehistoric date, visible as a grass-covered mound, lying in pasture on a plateau that runs gently down to Westruther Burn, 230m above sea level.
The cairn consists of a mound 10m in diameter and 1.5 in height. It is surrounded by a slight ditch 1.2m wide and 0.2m at its greatest depth. There are slight traces of an upcast bank on the outer edge of the ditch and the monument measures 17.5m in total diameter. There is a shallow depression in the top which may indicate antiquarian investigation. There is also a low spread of stones, found 8m to the north-east of the first cairn, about 5m in diameter and 0.3m high from present ground level; this may be the remains of another cairn.
There are traces of other cairns in the local area.
Cairns of this type are funerary monuments dating to the Neolithic and Bronze Age, and may be expected to contain burials and other material relating to their mode of construction and use.
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 a circle with maximum dimensions of 40m centred on the mound as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric funerary and ritual practices. Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
The monument is recorded by RCAHMS as NT04NW18.
References:
RCAHMS 1978a, LANARKSHIRE: AN INVENTORY OF THE PREHISTORIC AND ROMAN MONUMENTS, Edinburgh: HMSO, 58, No. 67 (1, 2).
Photographs:
RCAHMS, 1976, NT04NW 18, Kersewell Mains Cairn, LA 1697.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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