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Latitude: 55.7622 / 55°45'43"N
Longitude: -4.574 / 4°34'26"W
OS Eastings: 238591
OS Northings: 655093
OS Grid: NS385550
Mapcode National: GBR 3C.B57P
Mapcode Global: WH3PH.QF2H
Entry Name: Cuff Hill Plantation, long cairn
Scheduled Date: 30 January 1950
Last Amended: 23 December 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM303
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: long cairn
Location: Beith
County: North Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Dalry and West Kilbride
Traditional County: Ayrshire
This monument comprises a well-preserved chambered long cairn of the Bargrennan group, which is situated near the base of Cuff Hill on a low knoll.
This monument is at least 49m in length, at least 20m wide and a maximum of 2m high. A nineteenth-century plantation wall partially defines the cairn, but overlies it on the north-west. Five burial chambers are known from nineteenth-century excavations on the cairn, three of which are still exposed. Human bones were found during the course of the excavations.
This monument is being rescheduled because the original area scheduled was inadequate. The area now to be scheduled measures a maximum of 50m WSW-ENE by 50m NNW-SSE to include the chambered long cairn and an area around in which traces of activities associated with its construction and use may survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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