Archaeology Notes

Event ID 723980

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX16SE 27 1877 6093

See also NX16SE 14.

NX 187 609. A Clyde-type long cairn lies some 130 yds SE of Md Gleniron I cairn (NX16SE 14). Prior to Corcoran's excavations in 1963-6, it appeared as a low grass-covered mound with the upper parts of six small orthostats projecting at the S end. He showed that it was of multi-period construction.

The earlier structure is a small oval cairn which encloses a very small rectangular chamber opening from the E. A larger rectangular chamber, opening from the S, was built against the edge of the oval cairn, and its entrance was flanked by a shallow facade. The composite structure was enclosed within a straight-sided cairn, bounded by a revetment and measuring some 47' N-S by 30' wide at the S end, and 39' wide at the N end. Artifacts found included sherds of decorated and undecorated Neolithic pottery, flint and chert implements; while fragments of a food vessel were found in the area of the axial chamber which had been much distrubed prior to the excavation. They are in Dumfries Museum.

RCAHMS 1912; J X W P Corcoran 1969; A S Henshall 1972.

NX 1877 6093. This chambered cairn is generally as described and planned.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 12 March 1968

All that is now visible of this chambered long cairn, which lies in a field on the SE side of the track to Mid Gleniron 100m ESE of the cairn NX 16SE14 is a low mound with an orthostatic facade on the SSW and a small lateral chamber opening tow ards the E. Excavation has shown that the lateral chamber was originally contained within a free-standing cairn, which was subsequently incorporated into a long cairn with an axial chamber (now destroyed) opening off a shallow forecourt at the SSW en d. In its final form the cairn measured 14.3m in length and 9.1m in breadth at the SSW end, increasing to 11.9m on the NNE.

RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) June 1986.