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Wee Cairn Hill, Dalcairnie
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Wee Cairn Hill, Dalcairnie
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Dalcairnie Cairn
Canmore ID 42604
Site Number NS40SE 1
NGR NS 46262 04307
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42604
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Straiton (Cumnock And Doon Valley)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
- Former County Ayrshire
NS40SE 1 4626 0432.
(NS 4626 0432) Dalcairnie Cairn (NR)
OS 25" map (1963)
Dalcairnie Cairn: A large cairn about 1ft above the surface and nearly 120ft in diameter.
Name Book 1856
On the top of Wee Cairn Hill at a height of 800ft OD are the remains of a cairn. It consists of a greatly disturbed mound of turf-covered stones measuring 23.0m in diameter, with a maximum height of 0.9m.
Surveyed at 1:2500 (position at NS 4630 0424 on earlier editions of OS plans is erroneous).
Visited by OS (WDJ) 5 November 1959
The only cairn on this hill is that described above. The cairn is erroneously published on 1:10,000 sheet at NS 4628 0420. The old 25" published position is correct.
Resurveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JRL) 23 September 1980
Field Visit (July 1982)
Wee Cairn Hill, Dalcairnie NS 462 043 NS40SE 1
This cairn is situated on the E shoulder of Wee Cairn Hill, 380m WSW of Dalcairnie farmhouse; it measures about 25m in diameter, but quarrying has reduced it to a maximum height of only 0.8m.
RCAHMS 1983, visited July 1982
(Name Book, Ayr, No. 60, p. 95; Smith 1895, 185)
