Gawin Moor
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Gawin Moor
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Auchencairn Forest
Canmore ID 66012
Site Number NX99SW 14
NGR NX 9435 9146
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66012
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Closeburn
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX99SW 14 9435 9146
See also NX99SW 12, NX99SW 13, NX99SW 32.
(NX 9434 9145) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
There is a cairn, 62ft in diameter and 8 ft high, on a slight ridge some 300 yds S of the "tumuli" described on NX99SW 12. Excavations have been made in it at one or two places, but no cist or chamber has been reached.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912
NX 9435 9146. A well-preserved cairn on the crest of a slight ridge is 19.5m in diameter and 2.3m high. It has been dug into in the east but no burial has been exposed.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 5 August 1977.
Scheduled with NX99SW 12, NX99SW 13, NX99SW 32 as Gawin Moor, cairns, east of Auchencairn.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 29 January 1993.
