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Cairnennock
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cairnennock
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 43500
Site Number NS50SW 1
NGR NS 5080 0078
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43500
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Dalmellington
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
- Former County Ayrshire
NS50SW 1 5080 0078.
(NS 5079 0077) Cairnennock (NR)
OS 6" map (1958)
The White Cairn of Carnannock (NSA 1845), the turf-covered remains of a cairn, 21m in diameter and 05m high, surrounded by a wet ditch circa 3m wide. Human remains were found when the cairn was robbed to build stone dykes, (Name Book 1857) possibly including the collapsed sheep ree which overlies the site.
Visited by OS (JLD) 13 September 1955
NS 5080 0078 This cairn is as described in the previous field report except that it measures 20.0m EW by 18.0m and has a modern marker cairn built upon it.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 2 June 1976
Field Visit (6 October 1942)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
