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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 727183
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/727183
NX98NW 17 unlocated.
Capt. Riddell, touring in 1787, says "Cairn Hall farm has one of the largest cairns in Nithsdale". (There is a "Cairnhall" at NX 904 859 in the parish of Dunscore, and a "Cairn" farm at NX 911 878 in Closeburn.) (See NX89NW 13.)
R Riddell 1794
There is no trace of this cairn at either site, nor any indication of one on an estate map of 1840. (Mr Kennedy, Blackwood Estate)
Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1975.
