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Latitude: 55.5141 / 55°30'50"N
Longitude: -5.6962 / 5°41'46"W
OS Eastings: 166740
OS Northings: 630690
OS Grid: NR667306
Mapcode National: GBR DG94.CMQ
Mapcode Global: WH0LQ.GNRP
Entry Name: Killocraw, cairn 640m E of
Scheduled Date: 1 April 1975
Last Amended: 15 November 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3647
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 15m in diameter and 1.5m high.
The cairn is sited on the N side of a small burn, 125m N of some disused farm buildings, in wet rough grazing.
The monument is being rescheduled because the original scheduling was wrongly located. 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.
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 preseve 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 3664) 275m to the SW, and a cup-marked boulder (SM 209) 170m to the NE. There are also numerous unscheduled cup-marked stones in the vicinity.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS record the site as NR63SE 4.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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