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Latitude: 54.9541 / 54°57'14"N
Longitude: -4.9106 / 4°54'38"W
OS Eastings: 213720
OS Northings: 566040
OS Grid: NX137660
Mapcode National: GBR GH7M.5G4
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.JQVZ
Entry Name: Cairnerzearn,cairn 1700m SW of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5061
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This cairn is visible at the SSE end of a hollow in the peat 40m NNW of the old march dyke between Cairnerzean and Little Larg. It is about 5.5m in diameter. It appears similar to several other robbed cairns in the vicinity.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 20m radius circle based on the visible centre of the cairn, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as part of the numerous and varied group of ?Lingdowey Cairns?. Comparison among the members of this group would allow greater understanding of the range and variety of prehistoric burial practice. The cairn also seals below it important potential evidence, accessible to excavation, for the pre-cairn land-use of the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 39.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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