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Latitude: 54.9446 / 54°56'40"N
Longitude: -4.9128 / 4°54'45"W
OS Eastings: 213538
OS Northings: 564990
OS Grid: NX135649
Mapcode National: GBR GH7M.Y63
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.HZT8
Entry Name: Auld Wife's Grave, chambered cairn, Cairnscarrow
Scheduled Date: 31 October 1924
Last Amended: 5 December 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1914
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: chambered cairn
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of the remains of a chambered burial cairn of Neolithic date.
The cairn is located about 200m NNW of the survey point on Cairnscarrow. It has been reduced to only 9m in diameter and 0.6m high. The chamber is 4m long by 0.9m, and has been created by modifying a natural rock outcrop.
The area to be scheduled is a circle, centred on the cairn, of diameter 30m, to include the cairn and an area around it in which traces of its construction, use and former extent may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a chambered cairn of rather unusual form, with a partly natural chamber. It has the potential, even in its reduced state, to provide important information about prehistoric burial practices.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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The monument is recorded in the RCAHMS as NX 16 SW 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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