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Knockdon
Burial Cairn (Prehistoric), Clearance Cairn (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Knockdon
Classification Burial Cairn (Prehistoric), Clearance Cairn (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Water Of Girvan
Canmore ID 42624
Site Number NS40SW 1
NGR NS 42899 00585
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42624
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Straiton (Kyle And Carrick)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NS40SW 1 4290 0058.
(NS 4290 0058) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1968)
A large, turf-covered cairn measuring 15m E-W by 14m and 2m high on the N. A slight hollow 0.4m deep in the E side may indicate that it has been opened. It lies in a field, formerly cultivated, in which there are about fifty clearance heaps. The cairn is larger than any of these and nearer the river but the possibility exists that it is also field clearance (J Smith 1895).
Visited by OS (JLD) 17 November 1955
A grass-covered burial cairn, as described in the previous field report. There are a number of small clearance heaps to the S of this cairn.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 26 May 1976
This cairn, which is on low-lying, cultivated ground, is almost certainly prehistoric.
Resurveyed at 1:10,000.
The twenty-plus cairns to the S are spread on the periphery of an unenclosed narrow rig and furrow system which is part of the depopulated site at NS 4262 0043. These clearance mounds and also dumps of small stones are up to 3.0m in diameter and 0.5m in height.
Visited by OS (MJF) 19 September 1980
Field Visit (6 September 1942)
This site was recorded as part of the RCAHMS Emergency Survey, undertaken by Angus Graham and Vere Gordon Childe during World War 2. The project archive has been catalogued during 2013-2014 and the material, which includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, plans and photographs, is now available online.
Information from RCAHMS (GF Geddes) 2 December 2014.
Field Visit (August 1982)
Knockdon 1 NS 429 005 NS40SW 1
This cairn is situated on the S bank of the Water of Girvan, 360m WSW of Knockdon farmhouse; it measures 14m in diameter and 1 .4m in height.
RCAHMS 1983, visited August 1982
(Name Book, Ayr, No. 60, p, 122; Smith 1895, 185)
