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Latitude: 54.8233 / 54°49'23"N
Longitude: -4.697 / 4°41'49"W
OS Eastings: 226833
OS Northings: 550940
OS Grid: NX268509
Mapcode National: GBR GHSY.TGP
Mapcode Global: WH2SY.T1J6
Entry Name: Cairn Buy,cairn 720m NW of Garheugh
Scheduled Date: 4 August 1953
Last Amended: 14 September 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1923
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Mochrum
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The site is of national importance as an unusually well preserved
round cairn with the potential for increasing understanding of bronze age burial and ceremonial practices. It is of further importance for sealing an old ground surface in which evidence for contemporary vegetation and environmental conditions will be preserved.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
The case arose from checking of old schedulings, during which it was discovered that the cairn scheduled with this one had been wrongly located on the scheduling documents, and that the original location point for the scheduling had disappeared.
The monument is adequately described on the attached documents. There are no known difficulties in its preservation
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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