Claywarnies
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Site Name Claywarnies
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 61917
Site Number NX17SW 43
NGR NX 10 71
NGR Description NX c. 10 71
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61917
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX17SW 43 c. 10 71.
Smith (1897) records that 'about half a mile west from Friar's Kirk Cairn there is a stone circle, 12 paces in diameter; and half a mile further west, on a bit of rising ground, there is a large cairn, 7 paces in diameter, and 4 feet 6 inches high. 'The large cairn is the chambered cairn on Claywarnies (NX17SW 2), but this is only 850m W of the 'Friar's Kirk Cairn', which is the large cairn on the S end of Druman wherran (NX17SW 7). The nature and location of the 'stone circle' are unknown and the whole area has now been afforested.
Visited by RCAHMS (SH) October 1985
