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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 798949
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/798949
NX13SW 74.00 12850 31909
NX13SW 74.01 NX 12794 31945 West Cairngaan Cottage
(Location cited as NX 1285 3190). A farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings, one partially roofed long building, which is annotated Ruins and has an attached roofed horse-gang, three roofed buildings, two of which are T-shaped, and three enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Wigtonshire 1850, sheet 36). The modern farmstead of West Cairngaan is shown at this location on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1984).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 3 December 1999.
