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Latitude: 55.5128 / 55°30'46"N
Longitude: -5.6998 / 5°41'59"W
OS Eastings: 166503
OS Northings: 630560
OS Grid: NR665305
Mapcode National: GBR DG94.HZ5
Mapcode Global: WH0LQ.FP0N
Entry Name: Killocraw, cairn 450m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 1 April 1975
Last Amended: 15 November 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3664
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Killean and Kilchenzie
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: South Kintyre
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises a prehistoric burial cairn, which appears as a low grassy mound approximately 13.5m in diameter and 1m high.
The cairn is sited on a small knoll overlooking a burn to the N, in rough grazing.
The monument is being rescheduled because the original scheduling was wrongly sited. The area now to be scheduled measures 55m in diameter to include the cairn and an area around it in which remains associated with its contruction and use are likely to survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because it is an example of a typical early prehistoric burial cairn which has the potential to increase considerably our understanding of prehistoric ritual and funerary practices, and also of the past environment, as the cairn material will have helped to preserve the prehistoric ground surface buried beneath it. The cairn is also of considerable interest as part of a group of monuments including another scheduled cairn (SM 3647) 275m to the NE, and a cup-marked boulder (SM 209) 450m to the NE. There are also numerous unscheduled cup-marked stones in the vicinity.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NR63SE 14.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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